Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mdisea!mitchell From: mitchell@MDI.COM (Bill Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup Message-ID: <1991Mar7.031605.3778@MDI.COM> Date: 7 Mar 91 03:16:05 GMT References: <30737@usc> <9146@star.cs.vu.nl> Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 24 In article klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) writes: >(About a splitup to comp.os.minix & comp.os.minix.sources) > >This proposed splitup leaves me with a question: > >Where should fixes and patches go? > >........... > >And what to do with the the big bug reports with tiny fixes? >Or, otherwise, with updates from the author to a program? and patches submitted by others than the original author? and patches which are incompatable with previous patches? still, I think that confusion is less confusing than the current confusion. Should make finding and obtaining sources and patches from archives easier than at present. Not that I've ever had much success with the archives. I'm still trying to get a copy of origami part 5. -- mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)