From: Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T21:04:46+09:00
Subject: Re: "Old" CVS-revisions of Ruby fail to compile


About a week ago I asked:

>
> I just tried to compile some old revisions of Ruby, by checking out from CVS 
> how the source looked at a particular time. But it seems like all revisions 
> between 2004-04-28 and 2004-10-31 fail to compile.
>
[...]
>
> Can others reproduce this?
> Or even better, explain what is going on?
>

I haven't seen any answer yet.

Do you think it doesn't matter if old versions (specified by date) 
are possible to reproduce?

I have several times found it useful to be able to "go back in 
time", and I think it is quite unfortunate that the archives have 
been made more or less useless in this respect.

I don't know any details about what has happened to the archives, 
but it seems like the recent "import" of a new version of the 
"Oniguruma code" is the direct cause.

Are there inherent problems with import?
Or was the import not done the way it is supposed to be done in CVS?


/Johan Holmberg