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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libreadline Makefile 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 95 01:14:31 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 12:02:29 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Please remove it then.  I think you've demonstrated why things shouldn't
> be put in the src tree until they are "finished".

No, I think he's demonstrated why things that _aren't used_ shouldn't
be put in the source tree.  Things that several developers are syncing
on, like sysinstall, need some mechanism for being kept up to date
during an often furious development cycle, and the CVS tree is a
pretty reasonable way of dealing with that.  I'd hate to have to
develop a parallel scheme just to satisfy someone's love of purity -
it'd be wasted work!  The sup and CTM schemes are already implemented
for the source tree and I'm busy enough as it is without having to
waste my time going the longer way around.

Getting back to the "not finished and not used" criteria, I think both
libforms and my well-intentioned but unfinished dmenu program should
leave the source tree until they're really done and ready to deploy.
Nobody will suffer for their absence.

					Jordan