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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued 
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In message <199708021720.DAA00921@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>, David Nugent writes:

>Just out of curiosity, why exactly was tcl8.0 *beta* added to the base
>distribution? 

Because -current is "not yet release code" and tcl8.0b2 is "almost but
not quite release code".

That's why.

It sounds to me like a lot of people should seriously reconsider if 
they ought to run -current :-(

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