Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> I have two questions: >> >> 1) Given that pretty much the entire FOSS universe seems to be moving >> away or have already moved away from, CVS, should we perhaps consider >> integration as Obsolete, with some suitable note in the man pages or >> other docs recommending the use of alternatives such as SVN or Hg? > > CVS is more extensively used than just the FOSS universe -- I've come > across (and in some cases, worked for) a good number of customers who > use it for their own products/projects. I cannot imagine any of them > ever converting to another SCM in the lifetime of their products, and > the inclusion of CVS tools would make Solaris slightly easier to use > for them. >
Marginally. Most people outside of Sun already have a built up /usr/local of GNU tools that they've been actively updating and keeping since Solaris 2.5- and yes, CVS is usually part of that bundle (along with screen, bfdutils, gcc, ....)
