Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Patch dates or Patch Numbers Message-ID: <1989Aug19.215016.23031@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Aug9.164003.20669@utzoo.uucp> <6717@dayton.UUCP> <1989Aug17.171000.23302@utzoo.uucp> <2876@itivax.iti.org> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 21:50:16 GMT In article <2876@itivax.iti.org> scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >... i realize you don't put out a lot >of patches. your posting/patching frequency is irrelevant to the quality >of number vs. date as a methodology)... Ah, but this is exactly my point: it's not. The difference between the various bookkeeping systems becomes significant only for large numbers of patches. We hope to solve the how-to-track-lots-of-patches problem by avoiding it entirely. If there are only a handful of patches, it just doesn't matter that much. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu