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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: [The Great Patch-kit Debate] Bugs, Annomolies, Patches, Hacks, Fixes, Rewrites & Experimental
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 05:24:19 GMT
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re: Subject: Re: [The Great Patch-kit Debate] Bugs, Annomolies, Patches, Hacks, Fixes, Rewrites & Experimental
 
>> In article <jmonroyC55tAy.462@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
>> > [ ... ]
>> >       PATCH-KIT   - Released weekly without regard for consequence
>> > [ ... ]
>> >       HACK-KIT    - The same as above. This is just different code.
>> > [ ... ]
>>
>> i think the thing to emphasize here is "Released weekly".
>>
        YES, definitely
 
>> as some of you are, i'm sure, aware, i'm one of the people involved
>> in trying to get together an interim release.
>>
        Kinda.
 
>> basically, the goal will be an initial source- and binary- release,
>> to get everybody "in sync" with my environment.
>>
        Yeek, Is that the bezerkely enviroment?
 
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>> then, weekly,
>> complete diffs from the previous week will be automatically
>> (as in: with cron) posted to the net.  subsequent "full releases"
>> will happen, but, for a while, only the source release
>> will be updated automatically.
>>
        Sound good!