:Sorry if I added some confusion: NetBSD uses the file CVSROOT/config,
:but therein uses the CVSROOT/options style (tag=).
Ouch.
:It's true that the best solution would be that all projects would use
:the "official" style, but I don't think this will happen any time soon.
:So we got the choice: try to get the other projects to at least support
:the official way, or, as long as those big repos don't do it the
:official style yet, accept this fact and add a legacy mode.
:
:cheers
: simon
I guess you can get me to cave in on this point fairly easily. But
could you do me a favor and have CVS generate a warning whenever the
legacy options are used if the new option is not also present? Maybe
something like:
Warning: legacy option 'tag=' or 'tagexpand=' used in CVSROOT/options
(FreeBSD style) or CVSROOT/config (NetBSD style) without the CVS official
LocalKeyword/KeywordExpand options also present.
(DragonFly's CVS has both sets to be compatible with people accessing it
from FreeBSD, so we only want to warn if the compatibility set exists
and the official set does not).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>