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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> >
>
> > At one point with BL3 1.x I stopped taking time to download
> > the new versions because they were too frequent and I did
> > not want to keep redoing my own changes (config. files etc.).
> > I skipped 2.X entirely.
> > 2.7MB takes a while to download and your download sites are
> > not all that fast either.
>
> First you hassled me to upload 3.3 early, before I had
> finished testing it.  So I did (bl3-30.zip).  Now, that
> further testing has uncovered a problem (which I have
> fixed in bl3-31.zip), you complain about too many versions.
>
> You can't have it both ways.  Either keep quiet and wait
> patiently for me to complete testing of new versions.
> Or download the updates without complaining.

You deleted the part of my previous email where I asked if you could also
post patches (changed files, or update packages) to 3.30 for those of us 
who already got 3.30, so that we COULD have it both ways.  Would this be a 
lot more work for you?   I wasn't complaining of too many versions, just 
of the need to download the whole thing every time rather than just the 
changes.  In addition to the time taken for the download, every time I 
install a new version I then have to make all the same changes to it -
dialing and mail configuration files, installing packages and dependencies 
(icewm, links2, and in my case kermit, lynx and its dependencies, SVGAlib 
files, a few scripts, Chris's sound package....).  I think I have seen 
source code plus patches, rather than a complete new version of the source 
code every time something changes.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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