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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News production release bugs
Message-ID: <454@logicon.arpa>
Date: 13 Jun 89 23:19:46 GMT
References: <1989Jun13.211659.11139@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <1989Jun13.211659.11139@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>Henry and I discussed modifying version numbers and the like yesterday,
>but decided that we don't want to *have* multiple versions of C news in
>the field, if we can avoid it.

Realistically, you can't avoid it (you said that bug reports are
already coming in).  There *will* be multiple versions of C news in
the field, so you might as well make it easy to distinguish between
them by using version numbers.  The sooner you start doing this, the
less painful it will be.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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