[Savannah-hackers] Re: Questions about the rules for Savannah projects

[Stuart Ballard]

Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> Could you, before uploading stuff files Savannah, remove/broke the
> non-free DB support. So your software wouldn't be dependant on
> non-free from the start.
>
> Next, once support for free software like PostgreSQL and MySQL is ok,
> you'll be able to readd support for Oracle.
>
> Is it possible?

That sounds like a good idea. Would it be sufficient to make it a 
configuration file option that defaults to "off" (maybe even make it 
undocumented, so as not to advertise the non-free support) or would you 
need me to remove it entirely?

I have no problem with either approach, although the former would be 
easier and more convenient (especially since this code is still in 
active use/development in an environment that sadly depends on the 
non-free support).


By the way, I have a technical question too. This project has been 
developed in CVS from the start, and so there's a large body of CVS 
history that I'd like to preserve in the move to Savannah, if possible. 
Is there any way to do that with CVS (eg uploading a tarball of the 
relevant directory from my existing cvsroot)?


Thanks again,

Stuart.

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