"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, I know. I've been through this argument a half-dozen times
> before on other lists. I don't think it is appropriate to go through
> the arguments again here.
Yup.
> Suffice it to say that I believe that CVS is the wrong tool for this.
> Most, if not all, of the other projects with which I am familiar agree
> with me. Autoconf and automake are the two glaring counter-examples,
> so I wondered if they knew something that I didn't.
Add XEmacs to your "glaring counter-examples". We don't have the
problems you describe because everybody respects the rules. Either you don't
touch these files, or you do it in accordance with the archive. I agree it
doesn't help when something fancy happens on the archive side though ;-)
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