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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:15:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970803181521.4813B-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199708040004.JAA16044@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Tom stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, David Holloway wrote:
> > 
> > > how different do ports-current and ports-stable have to be?
> > > (unless 2.x and 3.x are completely non portable 
> > >  between each other, in which case.. that is a mistake)
> > 
> >   Exactly.  Current developers need to agree to not break compatibility,
> > and the problem is solved.  Some ports (very few), that need access to
> > various kernel may need to broken, but the number of such should be small.
> 
> Whacko.  While we're at it, let's just rename this list "msdos-current".

  What?  What exactly are you trying to say here?

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Tom




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