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From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: interim release.
Message-ID: <1993Jul19.142624.12887@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 93 14:26:24 GMT
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In article <CAEwsw.2xz@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:
>
>Is it compatible with the patchkit or is this an isolated thing? [...]
>What I would like to see (is this wishful thinking?) is that patchkit
>0.2.5 would serve as a way of upgrading from patchkit 0.2.4 to the interim
>version (386bsd 1.5 or whatever), or that the 2 paths if separate for awhile
>will merge again fairly quickly, say with patchkit 0.2.6. There just seems
>to be a bit too much unnecessary diversity if there are so many versions of
>386bsd 0.1 around (patchkit, interim, netBSD).
>
>--
>adam@veda.is

I strongly doubt that it will be possible to grab patchkit-0.2.5, and
be upgraded to the "interim version".

However, if you're concerned about there being "yet another branch" on
the 386bsd tree, I don't think you need to be concerned.  The "interim
release" is put together by most of the patchkit folks.

Instead, think of the "interim" release as a new baseline for future
patchkits.  (Though the patchkit mechanism will hopefully change for
the better).

Jon
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