Re: Last bits of SCCS, RCS, CVS and Subversion IDs

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 12:18 PM Steve Kargl <
sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 11:47:05AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > The reset of that thought is that the other remaining SVN / CVS / RCS /
> > SCCS tags are from projects that no longer really have an upstream.
> > They are defunkt now for many years (decades in all cases I'm familiar
> > with, but I've not done a full audit to say that with certainty). They
> > also date from a time where marking of sources and binaries was
> fundamentally
> > different, and did things that we no longer do and are out of step. So
> > there's no benefit to retaining it and some desire, at least to
> modernize.
> >
>
> Warner,
>
> As part of the purge of the ids, are you planning to remove ident(1)?
>

I was not. I have no opinion as to whether or not it should remain.

Warner