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Article #5033Re: Posting Patches; Was Patch frequency
From: Brandon S. Allbery
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 00:25
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 00:25
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As quoted from <340@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> by noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel B. Del More Nashua):
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| In article <bahx024m26XB01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> paf@uts.amdahl.com (Paul A. Fronberg) writes:
| >I claim that all offical patches should be issued through the moderated source
| >group that the program was originally posted. This would allow easier
| >administration of fixes and put them in a known group.
|
| This is an idea that has alot of merit. While it would result in some
| inconvienence, in that the patch would have to pass through the
| moderator resulting in some delay reaching the end user of the program,
| it would introduce some degree of consistency into the posting of
| patches.
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Bill Randle (comp.sources.games) and I already do this *if we are sent the
patches*. I'm not certain about Rich Salz and comp.sources.unix; but we
can't post what we haven't been sent by the author of the original package.
++Brandon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!indri!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Posting Patches; Was Patch frequency Message-ID: <13676@ncoast.ORG> Date: 23 May 89 00:25:41 GMT References: <bahx024m26XB01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <340@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 24