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Article #63315Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism.
From: Per Abrahamsen
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 10:22
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 10:22
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>>>>> "HB" == Hwa-Jin Bae <hjb@netcom.com> writes: HB> when a stable quarterly release is made to cygnus own customers the HB> same release should also be made available to non-customers at the same HB> time. I'm not sure it would be a good idea to do this in an too public way. Take gcc for example. If people download Cygnus 1994Q3 version of gcc and discover a bug, to who do they report it? FSF probably won't be thrilled to receive bug reports for a version of gcc with Cygnus modifications, and Cygnus probably don't want bug reports for FSF maintained utilities from non-customers. It would also cause confusion among the users, which is newest: FSF gcc 2.6.3 or Cygnus gcc 1994Q3? The quarterly releases _are_ publicly available, but only indirectly through Cygnus customers, so the problems do not occur as often now.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,16f9059ee24a2cdc X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-09 15:14:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!swrinde!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.tele.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!news.uni-c.dk!iesd.auc.dk!news From: abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism. Date: 09 Feb 1995 11:22:01 +0100 Organization: Math & CS at Aalborg University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <abrahamyqquxqyxyd@verdande.iesd.auc.dk> References: <3gbuc0$ptd@umd5.umd.edu> <3gtrbn$fo7@hermes.synopsys.com> <hjbD3GvD2.6z2@netcom.com> <robertl.792007755@amsg> <hjbD3LJ5G.BDp@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: verdande.iesd.auc.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: amanda In-reply-to: hjb@netcom.com's message of Mon, 6 Feb 1995 20:48:52 GMT BCC: amanda X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.18