Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 14:38:45 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@scsn.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> Cc: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <19970802143845.26672@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <1773.870545118@critter.dk.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 08:05:18PM %2B0200 References: <199708021720.DAA00921@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> <1773.870545118@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 08:05:18PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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 :-( > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. > http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. > whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. > Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail. This seems to me to be a very silly attitude. Today's -current is tomorrow's release... If this foolishness of continuing to maintain tcl in the base tree is not stopped _now_, we will have to live with it for the next N releases. _Please_ end it *now*.
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