Re: NetBSD & Fossil

[bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 7/2/15, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:12:50PM -0700, bch wrote:
>> It probably will, and I hope it will. I've been involved (I was the
>> one that proposed fossil all those years ago, and introduced drh to
>> Jorg, and (iirc) got Jorg involved w/ helping Tcl convert from CVS ->
>> fossil (resulting in his excellent conversion tool)...
>
> NetBSD was the reason to develop it as the existing conversion tools at
> the time all had serious issues with providing a faithful conversion.
> TCL's conversion was much later.

Right -- and iirc, Tcl also had it's own which was superceded by yours
in time; so, to be clear this wasn't the impetus for your tool, but it
was used there, and I think bugs/features developed there. I think
"resulting in his excellent conversion tool" may have been misleading.


> Joerg
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