On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:19:40PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Two things from this mass branching that showed up:
1) Something weird happened, and all the modules entries pw*-z
got deleted from the modules file halfway through. We get to try
and put them back. Um, yay?
2) The modules file, *as it stands now*, is nearly 3MB checked out,
and nearly *1.2GB* under RCS. That can't be good.
The reason for this is to allow for the creation of pseudo-modules
for each 'branch', i.e., so 'cvs co FC-5' generates a:
FC-5/bash
FC-5/automake
FC-5/autoconf
...
tree, where the FC-5/<package> directory is the 'normal'
<package>/FC-5
dir.
(Note that the 'devel' meta-branch is done in an Entirely Different
manner.)
So, the question would be... is this worth it? Do we want to keep
supporting this?
I find it handy to check out the entirity of devel/, but the older
releases I couldn't care less about. I can't imagine why someone
would want the entire package CVS of an older release unless they
were looking for something tree-wide, which few peope are loony
enough to want to do.
Dave
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