Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 23:48:36 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hub@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Please remove all 3.0-SNAP releases from mirror sites... Message-ID: <16871.863160516@time.cdrom.com>
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After thinking long and hard about this for the last 8 weeks (and the currently broken snapshot was simply the last in a long series of annoyances with -current release building), I've concluded that 3.0 is simply not ready yet, even to be SNAPshoted, and I am discontinuing SNAPs for now. SNAPshots are reasonable test vehicles only when the pain/benefit ratio for making them is reasonable, and that definitely has not been the case for quite some time. Even when you can somehow manage to build one, and that's generally true only for perhaps one day in ten right now, what you wind up with is usually so broken as to be unusable (as were the last two attempts). And so, to avoid confusion, please delete any 3.0 snaps from your sites. I will no longer support them nor will Walnut Creek CDROM be releasing any on CD. Should a "SNAP server" appear at some point then it'll be a somewhat different ballgame since that's a fully automated, totally non-supported release mechanism and if it falls over or cranks out crap for a few weeks, well, you should have read the warning labels on it first before using it. :) Jordan
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