1 > Currently, the code and interface of Bugs Everywhere speaks loosely
2 > about the term “RCS”. Sometimes it means “revision control system”
3 > referring in general to these types of system, and sometimes it talks
4 > about GNU RCS, a specific system.
6 I don't think we ever rever to GNU RCS. Our current libbe.rcs.RCS
7 default implementation is a "don't version" backend for BE, but
8 perhaps this is what you're refereing to.
10 > I propose that “Version Control System” (“VCS”) has emerged as a
11 > consensus term to refer to such systems in general, with no specific
12 > reference to any particular system.
16 > This will change some interface (e.g. the ‘rcs_name’ configuration
17 > setting, and some of the methods on objects), but making this change
18 > while Bugs Everywhere is small will be much less painful than making it
21 Hmm, we really need a method for upgrading the on-disk BugDir version.
22 It's hard when you need to maintain backwards compatibilty with
23 earlier versions in the VCS history....