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Re: cvs commit issue on windows


From: Kaz Kylheku
Subject: Re: cvs commit issue on windows
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:15:34 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Larry Jones wrote:

> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:07:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Larry Jones <address@hidden>
> To: Vince Rice <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [info-cvs] Re: cvs commit issue on windows
> 
> Vince Rice writes:
> > 
> > There is no resolution; the CVS maintainers apparently have no interest in
> > fixing CVS locally on Windows.
> 
> Not so -- the CVS maintainers simply do not have the resources necessary
> to track down the problem and fix it at this time.  If someone were to
> do so, we would be most grateful.

Also:

    [W]e felt justified in installing Unix on our computer in the 1980s,
    because we were using it to write a free replacement for Unix.
    Nowadays, since free operating systems are available, the excuse is
    no longer applicable; we have eliminated all our non-free operating
    systems, and any new computer we install must run a completely free
    operating system.  We don't insist that users of GNU, or contributors
    to GNU, have to live by this rule. It is a rule we made for ourselves.
    But we hope you will decide to follow it too.

    (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html)

People who whine about a free program not working under some
proprietary operating system Windows are essentially asking the
maintainers of that program to act in contravention of the above rule.

The thing to do is to bug the maintainers of the *port*, or 
fix it yourself.




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