Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: patch tracking in C News
Message-ID: <1989Jun28.154408.13579@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> <1989Jun24.210926.25443@utzoo.uucp> <14416@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 15:44:08 GMT

In article <14416@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>The problem with date-based patch levels, and I think that Henry has all
>but admitted this but I want to get it on the record explicitly, is that
>you never know whether you've missed an interim patch...

Unless, of course, each patch simply includes a list of all preceding ones.
Which is what we plan to do.  This wouldn't work too well if we were up to
patch 57 already, but that does not seem likely to become an issue for us.
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