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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:49:19 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Cc:        peter@spinner.dialix.com, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/tcl Makefile patch01 patch02
Message-ID:  <199606190619.PAA00203@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199606190522.WAA12112@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Jun 18, 96 10:22:50 pm

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John Polstra stands accused of saying:
> 
> The sources should be imported in their distributed form, onto the
> vendor branch.  Then the necessary patches should be committed as deltas.
> 
> This is not the same as a port, and it shouldn't be treated like one.

It _is_ a port, and it _should_ be treated like one, modulo a few changes.

Basically the checked-out version should look like a port after
'make extract'.  

When a new version comes along, the contents of the 'work' directory will
change, and likewise files/patch* etc.

>    John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com

My impression anyway...

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