Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: patch tracking in C News
Message-ID: <1989Jun24.210926.25443@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9476@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1989Jun23.194724.2047@utzoo.uucp> <9486@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 21:09:26 GMT

In article <9486@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>BTW, it seems to me that a numeric patch tracking mechanism would make it
>easier to know what patches you need.

I frankly consider the date-based tracking mechanism a bit of an experiment;
we'll see how it turns out.  I like it better in several ways, but it does
make it harder to enumerate all the patches preceding a given one.
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