From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: rewrite to use cvsps 3.x to fix major bugs Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:12:54 +0100 Message-ID: <50F393D6.2010603@alum.mit.edu> References: <1357875152-19899-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <50F17DB0.2050802@alum.mit.edu> <20130112182649.GC4624@elie.Belkin> <7v8v7wiv3a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jonathan Nieder , "Eric S. Raymond" , git@vger.kernel.org, Chris Rorvick To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 14 06:20:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TucTF-0004Cn-B7 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:20:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752222Ab3ANFUA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:20:00 -0500 Received: from ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-8.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.20]:61485 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750787Ab3ANFT7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:19:59 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:19:59 EST X-AuditID: 12074414-b7f9b6d0000008b3-ff-50f393d9c3ce Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 2C.01.02227.9D393F05; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:12:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.69.140] (p57A25AA5.dip.t-dialin.net [87.162.90.165]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id r0E5CsdX025674 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:12:55 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <7v8v7wiv3a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFlrPKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqHtz8ucAg+dPhSx2zt3HanF1i49F 15VuJouG3ivMFm9vLmF0YPXYOesuu8fFS8oeu0+zeiz72sni8XmTXABrFLdNUmJJWXBmep6+ XQJ3xswPm9kKDrNXNJ47wNLA2MLWxcjJISFgIjH3/SooW0ziwr31YLaQwGVGiXl7wrsYuYDs M0wSs2eeYwFJ8ApoS6zZP40VxGYRUJW4sayJGcRmE9CVWNTTzARiiwoESCxeco4dol5Q4uTM J2C9IgJqEhPbDrGADGUW6GOU+HJpBViDsICXxOf3/awQm9czSjS8sgOxOQXMJH5cmwsWZxbQ kXjX94AZwpaX2P52DvMERoFZSHbMQlI2C0nZAkbmVYxyiTmlubq5iZk5xanJusXJiXl5qUW6 Fnq5mSV6qSmlmxghAS6yg/HISblDjAIcjEo8vJtLPgcIsSaWFVfmHmKU5GBSEuUN7wcK8SXl p1RmJBZnxBeV5qQWH2KU4GBWEuENrQPK8aYkVlalFuXDpKQ5WJTEeb8tVvcTEkhPLEnNTk0t SC2CycpwcChJ8IoDI1lIsCg1PbUiLTOnBCHNxMEJMpxLSqQ4NS8ltSixtCQjHhSr8cXAaAVJ 8QDtZQZp5y0uSMwFikK0nmLU5dj+u/05oxBLXn5eqpQ47+dJQEUCIEUZpXlwK2Dp7BWjONDH wrzcIKN4gKkQbtIroCVMQEvOXngPsqQkESEl1cC4Nitgqcbto7K35S5oHF/972xd6vY3Xb8b V5cbL86JcWzXyHkvMPPBybTYw+WPpaMl4qIrKnLfvk4LfdSaxnTAP/fifun/VTvK Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 01/13/2013 11:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > After a quick survey of various distros, I think it is very unlikely > that we will see "distros move on to newer cvsps, leaving cvsimport > broken" situation. If anything, it is more like "distros decide to > ignore the new cvsps, until it is made to work with cvsimport" [*1*]. A better predictor of the distros' decisions is probably which other packages depend on cvsps. As one data point: on Debian squeeze and on Ubuntu precise, only two packages depend on cvsps (git-cvs and bzr-cvsps-import) and one suggests it (chora2, "a code repository viewing component for horde framework"). So also by this standard they are unlikely to feel a lot of pressure to update quickly to cvsps3. > I think it is probably sensible to [...] > > Agreed? Yes, I agree that what you propose is a good strategy. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/