Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C-News 16Mar91 compile problem (SysVR3.2)
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.044420.5785@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 04:44:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.221551.6408@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1991Mar20.080059.19992@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar21.184409.25608@sat.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar21.184409.25608@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes:
>What is the point in sending out a series of interrelated patches over
>an extended period of time?  Are you afraid of overloading the net?

No, actually, the point of it is that preparation of a patch is a significant
amount of work and I'm very busy right now.  (Building the patch itself is
entirely mechanized, but checking it over is not.)  The patches of the 16th
and 17th actually got built only a couple of hours apart, but I didn't have
time to proofread the second one then.  Another reason for a small delay in
the 17th and subsequent patches was to give some of the final mods a few
days of operation on utzoo before posting them; we take this seriously as
a final checkout.

>AHA!  I figured it out!  Your patch identification scheme doesn't
>allow you to send out more than one a day! ...

Not usually a problem.  I can always backdate or forward-date them if
really necessary.
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