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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: patch #19...
Message-ID: <9088@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 10 Aug 90 18:27:45 GMT
References: <9075@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Aug10.115333.15006@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Aug10.115333.15006@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
: In article <9075@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: 
: > Just thought I'd warn you guys--it looks like patch 19 is actually
: > going to be patch 19..27 or so.  Make sure you've got half a meg
: > free in your news spool directories...
: 
: If it's going to be that big, why not just post a fresh kit ?

Because the fresh kits would be over three times as big.  And I don't want
to distribute fresh kits when the new version is likely to be a little
less stable than down the road a bit.

When the book comes out would be a good time to post fresh kits, presuming
things have stabilized (relatively speaking) at that point.

Larry