Re: Time to remove sccs tags

On 2023-11-22 13:21:27 (+0800), Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Am Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 01:15:14PM +0800 schrieb Philip Paeps:
>> On 2023-11-22 00:12:48 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
>>> It's been 30 odd years since the last csrg release. They are no 
>>> more.
>>>
>>> At this point I think we can safely remove the few sccs tags that 
>>> remain
>>> in
>>> the tree. The data will be there in git if we ever need it.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>
>> Long overdue.
>>
>> Since we're removing all these tags, should we also remove what(1) 
>> and
>> possibly ident(1) from the tree?
>>
>> Removing what(1) should be non-controversial at this stage.  I can 
>> imagine
>> some people may still be using ident(1) on extant Subversion systems.
>
> what(1) is part of POSIX, though I guess you can just install 
> devel/sccs
> if you need it.

I think the only reason we still have what(1) is because it was once 
useful to (help) identify the provenance of a file.  It wasn't very good 
at it in the past, and it certainly isn't very good at it now.

In 2002, Juli tried to resurrect SCCS for POSIX/SUS compliance.  It 
looks like the attempt was aborted before FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE though...

Anyone who needs to tick this box in their standards compliance 
paperwork should simply install devel/sccs. :)

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
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