Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News production release bugs
Message-ID: <1989Jun19.215945.7666@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jun13.034954.144@utstat.uucp> <3309@epimass.EPI.COM> <1989Jun13.211659.11139@utstat.uucp> <14400@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 21:59:45 GMT

In article <14400@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>>... we don't want to *have* multiple versions of C news in
>>the field, if we can avoid it.  
>
>Well intentioned but this is a doomed policy.  News is too complex to
>survive out here in reality without patches and versions.

I fear you are probably correct.  I had some ideas on how to deal with it,
but I had hoped that the issue could be postponed until I was back from
Usenix and the comp.sources.unix version had gone out to the world.

Stay tuned.
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