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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
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Date: 25 Sep 90 03:10:29 GMT
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I'd follow up Henry's article, but the long References: line breaks rn,
sigh.  So please forgive me if I misquote his claim.

Henry states that an advantage of date-based naming is that you can easily
tell that somebody is running an out-of-date version.  I must respectfully
disagree.  If patches are coming out fast and furious, the version of two
months ago might be 7 or 8 patches out of date.  On the other hand, in a stable
piece of software, a version two or three years old might be the latest.  This
was true of rn for quite a while, and is currently true of ispell.  I find
numbered patches much more informative in this regard.

	Geoff Kuenning	geoff@la.locus.com	geoff@ITcorp.com