Messages in this thread | | | Date | 19 Oct 96 11:49:39 EDT | From | Christian Hardmeier <> | Subject | Re: patches from 2.0.x to 2.1.x |
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> Considering anybody going from 2.0.22 or 2.0.23 is now most likely to > be going to 2.1.5 it would probably be better for them to download the > full source for 2.1.5 directly. > > Patch has been known to go wrong (mainly due to the human element) so > its a good idea to download the full source every once in a while > anyway. Besides that it saves Linus work :-)
Do you know how nice it is to download a 5meg file through a slow, instable, expensive PPP link? I am certainly not going to get the whole source code from the Internet. Patches are ok, and the base tree I take from a CD-ROM. Maybe not distributing patches for every version would save Linus's work, but it would probably scare off a lot of users who aren't blessed with free Internet connections. Myself included. BTW, it would be nice if there were a skip patch from last old stable to first new stable version, i.e. 1.2.13 -> 2.0.0. I don't know how large this patch would grow, however. Though I still prefer downloading 3 meg to downloading 5 meg ;).
Christian
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