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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

What a fitting last file.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is OpenBSD seriously still using CVS for development?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's weird. It's pretty unorthodox to use a pharmacy chain for development.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 2 months ago

To be fair, they have a pufferfish as a mascot, so there's bound to be some need for pharmaceuticals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

CVS is the authoritative repository of code, and they recommend to users to use that or reposync (built atop of CVS) to keep their system updated.

There is also a GitHub mirror , and got is an OpenBSD project, and I suspect a number of devs use one of those for local work until it's time to push the changes to the authoritative tree.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They can work on replacing that next

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it is, because it does the job. Why exactly shouldn’t they?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For example, maybe branching is something you'd like to be able to do without it being a nightmare?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

OpenBSD seems to be able to have branches (CURRENT and STABLE), and they seem to be able to manage them just fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the GNU/HU(I)RD.