[PATCH] website - removing reference to 21.5 access via CVS

[Vin Shelton]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Aidan Kehoe writes:
>  >
>  > I agree with this change.
>  >
>  >  Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Eanair, scríobh Vin Shelton:
>  >
>  >  > I don't know whether the CVS sources for 21.5 are still being
>  >  > maintained,
>
> "Maintained", no.  But "available", yes, AFAIK.  I think Mike has an
> automatic mirror process running, but I'm sure that I'm not paying any
> attention to it, and I doubt he does either. ;-)
>
>  >  > but it seems to me we should not be advertising them in any case.
>  >  >
>  >  > Comments?
>
> On the bzr and git lists I occasionally see queries about getting
> source via CVS.  It seems that there is an occasional demand for this,
> so if the mirror process is still running I would deprecate the CVS
> repo, but not remove mention of it entirely.  Or he could take this
> opportunity to definitively shut down the mirror.  Mike?
>
> The rest of that document also uses 21.5 as the leading example of CVS
> usage; that should probably be revised.  If you accept my proposal to
> deprecate it but not remove mention entirely, I'll work up a patch to
> do both.
>
> If you decide to commit yours as is, I'll eventually get around to
> doing the rest ....

Stephen - thanks for the invitation to read further down the page.  :-)

I feel pretty strongly that after more than a year of using hg we
should declare victory, pull the plug on CVS for 21.5 and move on.
That means, IMO, we should stop syncing 21.5 back to CVS and
(regardless) stop telling people that 21.5 can be found in CVS.

I'd also like to see us move the packages to hg, but that's another story.

In order to move the discussion forward, I'll generate a more
comprehensive patch removing references to fetching 21.5 from CVS.

  - Vin