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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:01:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Stefan Esser <se@zpr.uni-koeln.de>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/print/ghostscript4
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.960731000038.338B-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960730170534.18093B-100000@fiber.eng.umd.edu>

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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I'm not sure I agree with this.  The old tar file is very likely to 
> become much harder to get, and keeping parts of older versions, to 
> balance off ftp loading time, well, I think this isn't wise.  I think it 
> would just cause much more confusion than the time saved, for the largest 
> number of people.

I think this might be a strong argument to use actual version numbers.

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