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From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
Subject: Re: interim release.
Message-ID: <1993Jul21.053444.19280@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 05:34:43 +0000
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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? The reason I
>ask is that I don't have the machine resources at the moment to run multiple
>versions. 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).
>


Don't take this as an OFFICIAL statement but basically the situation
is..


The patchkit is no more. As of 0.2.4 the patchkit team has spent
it's time building a complete new release so just think of it as
a very big patchkit :-).

The patchkit mechanism just became too unwieldly to handle the job with
all the fixes that were needed. Real soon (and I mean real soon) the
interim release will be announced. This will be a complete new tree with
all of the previous patchkit and a load more fixes applied, it should be
very stable and has all the newest utils as well.

-- 
  Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff

  Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk
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