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Index of Subjects Well, my own simple opinion of RCS after three years of editing files is to lose it entirely. In my own home directory which does not have RCS, I can FTP a file or go in with Pico and edit it manually, both working equally well. I am responsible for keeping my own backups and I have yet to have a file corrupted on me. In the many RCS directories I've worked with, I have had lockouts inadvertantly placed by other editors, files corrupted, files replaced with older versions, the actual editing is slower (while RCS synchronizes) and a pile of unwanted, unneeded and non-standard code is added to my pages. If I use one page as a template (such as the Old News page) then it accumulates multiple comment tags and code which after a dozen edits or so I have to eliminate by deleting and recreating the page. I *like* editing in my home directory and I *hate* editing in RCS directories, because (a) RCS is noticeably slower, (b) adds an unpredictable element to page updating and (c) serves no bloody purpose. If I were the complaining IP (and FWIW, I am a complaining Chebucto site editor), I would want the thing gone completely. Nice neat solution. You can edit with text and with FTP equally well and hey - you can upload multiple files without slowing halifax to a crawl while it plays with RCS for each file. Not having the dice throw about whether or not it messes with your page code is pretty sweet also. If Tony (bless him) and a couple of other users have to have RCS, then just leave their directories with it. Purging it from the rest of Chebucto and in particular from any new IP directories strikes me as a great idea whose time has come. No need to alter code so FTP-only access doesn't create it (which ISTR was how this was supposed to have been resolved last time this surfaced, many months ago), with -no- RCS you can edit with FTP and text equally well - and it is so much quicker and easier. However, we'll do what we always do: the subject will be talked to death, a plan of action will be announced and in all likelihood not followed up on, and everyone will be quiet waiting for the plan to be implemented until it occurs to them that nothing is happening yet again. The Chebucto way of doing things in action.
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