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Re: removing old snapshot CVS tags?
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I find it rather odd that we would even consider making CVS a nice place
> for future hypothetical researchers at the potential expense of people
> doing everyday development.
Plus, there has not been a single user pointing out a _concrete_ need
for those old tags, especially from the egcs era.
Very odd.
On Tue, 14 Jul 2003, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> It has just occurred to me that we don't even need a .tar.bz2 of the
> full repository. All we need is some means to extract the existing
> tags into say a shell script that would re-create the tags. [...]
> Any volunteer to write the script?
Not me. I had volunteered to address an issue raised by several
contributors, but I am not going to spend any time to cater to possible
future sociological research (in fact, I consider such a request
unreasonable) or jump through the hoops to preserve something nobody
has produced a concrete need for.
However, I implemented changes so that mainline snapshots no longer lay a
tag, and I will try to do the same for branch snapshots in the near future.
Gerald