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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>,
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        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, andreas@klemm.gtn.com,
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Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued
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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*.