Re: [Lynx-dev] A VCS for lynx

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 04:22:02PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 04:56:48PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:38:24PM +0000, Tom Schwindl wrote:
> > > I wonder if there is interest in a VCS for doing development work.
> > 
> > AFAIK Lynx is actually developed using a VCS, namely CVS.
> 
> actually RCS

Thanks for the correction!

I actually had forgotten that CVS is based on top of RCS and that
these tags are coming from the RCS part of CVS.

> offhand, the only program that I work on that was in CVS was xterm
> 
> https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html#related-sources

Might be the reason why I had CVS in mind for your projects, too. But
more likely is that I never worked with pure RCS, just with CVS.

> but that stopped in 2006.

I see.

> https://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html#patches

Never heard of PRCS before though.

                Kind regards, Axel
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