"Simon J. Gerraty" wrote:

> >gratuitious changes are bad, but this change is so overdue that
> >other projects are likely to follow our lead, and the cvs people,
> >too, eventually.
> 
> Actually freebsd did it already?  Or at least the version of CVS we
> most recently installed at work defaulted to ssh.  Broke my
> automated build scripts until I set CVS_RSH=rsh ;-)

Indeed, back in early '01:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/cvs/src/client.c.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4

Last I heard, FreeBSD didn't self destruct over this change and are in
fact still going...

Simon.
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