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RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?
From: |
Paul Sander |
Subject: |
RE: Per-modules readers/writers ? |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:58:16 -0800 |
The consensus of the maintainers has historically been to never add features
that they don't personally need, unless somneone supplies code, documentation,
and a regression suite. And then it gets integrated at their discretion.
There are already at least two major splinter groups using features that
have been rejected for whatever reasons: Those using advisory locks as
supplied by Noel Yap, and those using mcvs.
>--- Forwarded mail from address@hidden
>Well, is it the consensus of the maintainers that they will *never*
>accept any access control feature patches for CVS? Or is it that if
>someone is willing to back-port and contribute this from the CVSNT side,
>they will accept it?
>I.e. is the opposition to ACLs a matter of priorities, or philosophy?
>If it is philosophy, is it the position of the maintainers that ACLs are
>so evil that they will actively oppose any attempt by anyone to insert
>such a feature into CVS, in order to protect innocent users from this
>heresy?
>--- End of forwarded message from address@hidden
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- Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?, Todd Denniston, 2002/10/29
- RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?, Shankar Unni, 2002/10/29
- Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?, Larry Jones, 2002/10/29
- RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?, Shankar Unni, 2002/10/29
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