Re: sccs2rcs to perl

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 17:21:08 (-0500), Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- 
wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: sccs2rcs to perl
>
> Well, I don't - at least, I wouldn't if I didn't have to because CVS
> depends on csh *only* because of the sccs2rcs csh script.  I'd love to
> remove csh from my system, but that would break dependencies (which is
> primarily why I re-wrote it in the first place).

I removed csh from almost all of my systems long ago.

I still have no interest in re-writing sccs2rcs into perl though....  :-)

(I don't think I would ever use sccs2rcs.csh either -- I'd write my own
conversion tool in POSIX shell if I had to, even though it would be
trivial for me to either install csh again or find a machine where it is
still present and working....)

> Ok, let me try another idea on you then.  Given the stunning lack of
> interest which, I admit certainly seems evident, how would you feel about
> removing the sccs2rcs script from the CVS distribution?  That'd make me
> just as happy.  All future CVS distribution gets smaller and you won't have
> to deal with any future bugs in the sccs2rcs script (which I see you had to
> patch a couple of times in the last year) -- everybody comes out a winner.

I wouldn't have any objection to that!  ;-)


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