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Date:      Sat, 02 Aug 1997 20:05:18 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), andreas@klemm.gtn.com, ports@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued 
Message-ID:  <1773.870545118@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 03:20:12 %2B1000." <199708021720.DAA00921@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> 

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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 :-(

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