[ On Wednesday, October 25, 2000 at 15:22:39 (-0400), jchacon@genuity.net wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Third party source [was re: airport codes.]
>
> However cvs isn't required for "self hosting".
> 
> The compiler, sure. CVS?? That's just there for people doing direct development
> and I agree shouldn't be in the tree.

I more or less agree in the case of CVS explicitly.

HOWEVER, since a *HUGE* part of ``open source'' systems is the ability
to track "vendor" deveopments in nearly real time, and the arguably best
way of interactively staying "current" with the tree is indeed by using
CVS, *and* since the best (only real?) way of tracking and investigating
the details (diffs, commit comments, tags, etc.) of "vendor" changes,
it's not too much of a stretch to conclude that CVS is indeed a critical
tool for self-hosted development of NetBSD.

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