Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Ah, but there is an important consideration here.  Our (Sun/OpenSolaris) 
> ability to properly provide support for CVS is somewhat limited (both 
> because of limitations in CVS itself, and because we don't use it 
> ourselves, and because there is little community support remaining for 
> it).  I therefore think we do ourselves and our users a service if we 
> gently point out that there are newer alternatives which will be better 
> supported (by us), and which are free of some of the worst of the 
> limitations in CVS.

The counter argument to this being we would likely be the only vendor 
putting in such a statement.  Does RHEL have one ?  Does Ubuntu ? Does 
SuSE ? Does AIX ? Does HP-UX ? Does MacOS X ? etc etc ?

I personally don't think we should be vandalising upstream man pages 
like this.

-- 
Darren J Moffat

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