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If you know anything about the OpenBSD project it really isn't surprising at all.

• Touche 12y ago
  Not everyone does "know anything about the OpenBSD project". So instead of the smug comment, why not just explain why this isn't surprising?
  • pestaa 12y ago
    To me the comment didn't sound smug at all -- instead it was sort of an insider joke referring to OpenBSD's philosophy to use only heavily battle tested, rock solid software not unlike CVS.
  • ams6110 12y ago
    It works well for the way they do development and releases, and all their build and test infrastructure is built to use it. And part of it is it's "the devil you know." I have heard that a lot of their devs will use git or hg on their local checkout to help manage their own dev environment. You can find out more about the openbsd philosophy by reading some of the presentations on it at http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ http://www.openbsd.org/papers/
  • xorcist 12y ago
    They've always held on to CVS, taking it so far that they've taken upon themselves to support their own fork of CVS going forward.
    • bakareika 12y ago
      Fun fact: they are not alone in this, I am aware of at least two startups that do the same thing to CVS (one already acquired by Cisco, the other one is ongoing). And having used CVS myself, I strongly disagree with any connotation of "productivity loss because of old SCM" etc. — it all depends on workflow. Kind of like Vim certainly isn't inherently less productive than a shiny new Visual Studio 2022.