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From: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.2 PL20 sysalias unofficial patch
Keywords: elm 2.2 PL10 sysalias unofficial patch
Message-ID: <26756@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 89 15:24:59 GMT
References: <870@wubios.wustl.edu> <27062@amdcad.AMD.COM> <193@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
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In article <193@titania.warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>In article <27062@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@hobbes.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) writes:
>>I am not sure how everyone else feels, but posting unofficial patches on the
>>net is a sure way of causing confusion.
>
>I strongly disagree with this.  It is clear which are official patches and
>which are unofficial, if you don't want to apply unofficial patches, there's
>no need to.  The `patch' program makes it easy to uninstall a patch when an
>official fix comes round (provided you keep the original patch around of
>course), or there's no problem if you use RCS or s.t. to keep things under
>control.

I'd have to agree with Indra on this one. It is potentially confusing
to post unofficial patches, particularly when those patches do not
update /hdrs/patchlevel.h. 

I'd say it would be better to post a not to say that you have an unofficial
patch that does whatever and request that interested parties send mail to
you requesting the patch.

>
>Please, keep your patches coming.

Please, by e-mail

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Paul M. Moriarty        pmm@mips.com          {ames,decwrl}!mips!pmm 
Computer Center SysAdmin
MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.