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From: carey@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Contrib Questions
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Date: 13 Jan 90 01:38:22 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!carey    Jan 12 15:39:00 1990


One question-- are the archive sites (the distribution sites announced
in the release announcement) going to have the same stuff?  It seems
like there should be an automatic update done daily to keep everything
the same.

At the archive sites, there is now a contrib and an oldcontrib.

From previous notes, I am pretty sure that there are versions of clients
newer than the distribution that are not in contrib (although they might
have gotten moved to oldcontrib).  Everyone ought to get their new
versions into contrib.

Has any thought gone into a master README file?

Something like--

Client  R4-dist version   Current version   File-name   Contact
------   --------------   ---------------   ---------   -----------

xlaunch          4.0      4.5              xlaunch.tar.Z  bob@zit.edu
xlaunch-patches  --       4.6              xlaunch.4.6patches.tar.Z bob@zit.edu
PEX	 --               alpha1.0         pex.randd.edu:pexalpha1.0.tar.Z

Yes, you can get information from an ls listing, but it is a lot of
guesswork.

A more complete readme file, giving a short description of each 
contribution might be nice.

This might be a little work to set up, but it would cut down on the
ftp traffic by a lot.  Plus save everyone a lot of work.