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At 12:09 PM -0700 10/15/03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  >
>>  I agree it would be better if we had 64-bit time_t's for
>>  5.x-STABLE.  I would really really like to see that.  However,
>>  we are hoping to make 5.x turn into 5.x-stable with a release
>>  of 5.2 in December.
>
>In fact, 5-stable happens no sooner than 5.3 in Feb 2004. Make
>the switch before 5.2 and you have enough time to deal with
>ports that suddenly start to break.

Oh.  I thought it was going to be 5.2.  Well, I'm still uneasy
about making the change, but I don't object quite as much if
we aren't shooting for -stable in 5.2.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu