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To: "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" <jamil@acroal.com>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Wouldn't porting -stable first be a better project, after all you want a
> quality product and that is what stable is.  If it was me I would start

Yes, but that would be a guarantee for rapid obsolescence, too, and
only defer a significant headache for the future when "trade up" time
came.  I think -current is absolutely the correct place to do
something like this.

					Jordan