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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:05:06 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        nate@trout.sri.mt.net, phk@ref.tfs.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu 
Message-ID:  <199503140506.VAA00563@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:27:47 %2B1000." <199503140427.OAA10154@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>>> I doubt the GNU people would be that anal retentive, since we already
>>> published the sources for the 2.0-RELEASE on the net...
>
>>Uhh, you are wrong about that one.  They are *very* anal and retentive
>>about it since they want *everyone* to be able to get the exact source
>>that created the binaries.  The Minix folks find this out when Bruce
>>made the 1.X binaries available for minix-386 and the archive sites only
>>kept the binaries and the diffs.  The GNU folks said they were required
>
>I've never made gnu binaries available for anything.
>
>>to keep the sources online as well even though the sources could be gotten
>>from other sites.  The reasoning was the other sites would delete the
>>old sources when the new versions came on line (similar to us deleting 2.0
>>when 2.1 comes on line).
>
>This restriction seems to have been relaxed for linux.  It would take
>an archaelogical expedition to find complete sources for everything.

   ...and a few terabytes of storage to contain all the revisions.

-DG



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