FreeBSD support for Mac OS X platform

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Mon Jul 17 23:02:19 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 11 July 2006 20:48, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> (a) Mac OS X has cvs installed out of
> the box, in /usr/bin/cvs.  It's version 1.11.20, wich is a
> good bit *more* recent than the version 1.11.17 that FreeBSD
> is still using (why? incompatabilities with developers' pet
> scripts?)

Because we have thousands of lines of changes to CVS that need careful 
merging. We generally apply the security patches instead unless there 
has been a compelling feature we need.

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Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
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