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

> On Sep 6, 2023, at 10:52 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 12:18 PM Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu <mailto: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.

ident still has some value with older versions of FreeBSD (I’ve used it before to get kernel versions/revisions) or making it into an optional build tool, but making it optional seems ok to me at least.
Thanks,
-Enji