Path: utzoo!utstat!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!tidk!storm
From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Would you like me to post nn 6.3.12 here?
Keywords: nn
Message-ID: <457@texas.dk>
Date: 7 Feb 90 16:47:06 GMT
References: <451@texas.dk> <961@wet.UUCP>
Organization: Texas Instruments, Denmark
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tempest@wet.UUCP (Ken Lui) writes:

>It would be great if the patches from 6.3.10->6.3.12 could also
>be either made available to the ftp site or posted as well.

The problem with going from 6.3.10 to 6.3.12 is that some files are no
longer used, some new files have been added, and some files have
been renamed.  To accomplish this in patch form is not easy.

>  That would save much time;

I fail to see why this should save time compared to unsharing 20 parts
(which nn will do happily for you :-) and redoing the configuration
of config.h which you will have to do anyway because 6.3.12 will not
compile with an older config.h!

> also, why not post patches for 6.3.6->6.3.12 and 6.3.1->6.3.12?

Same reason as above.  Furthermore, I have made the following calculations:

A full nn 6.3.12 distribution is about 850 k which can be split into
17 parts of 50k each.

The diffs from 6.3.1 to 6.3.12 are 600k plus about 100k new files, and
the diffs from 6.3.6 will be about 400k plus 100k new files.

Each of these are comparable in size with the full distribution, and
together they are much bigger.  Posting all would be a waste of net
bandwidth in my opinion (2M compared to "just" 850k).

-- 
Kim F. Storm        storm@texas.dk        Tel +45 429 174 00
Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
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