From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npois!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Re: Distributing updates
Article-I.D.: alice.668
Posted: Wed Jun 16 08:09:37 1982
Received: Fri Jun 18 04:38:50 1982


May I suggest a totally new approach?  Instead of collecting
bug fixes for a while and then posting a diff, why not post
the single fixes, AS THEY COME IN and are tested, to net.news.b,
telling in what source file they belong, where in that file,
and what to do.  This offers one big advantage over the diffs:
Now, when fixes are reported, I am hesitant to put them in, because
if I do, I have to save a copy of the old source so that the diffs
will work or put up a whole distribution from a tar.  Maybe I'll
forget to save the copy (it happens)  Granted, it could be more
work for the people who maintain the source, especially the ones
that do it on more than one machine, but if just ONE thing is
different in your source than what is in the master source (bad
grammar?), the diffs will not work and will totally screw you
up.  How about, for a while at least, posting the individual
fixes and then keep posting those diffs at periods?

Adam