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1 | $NetBSD: MAINT,v 1.4 1998/09/20 15:27:15 christos Exp $ |
| 2 | Id: MAINT,v 1.3 1997/11/05 16:03:18 christos Exp | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | Maintenance notes: | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | I am continuing to maintain the file command. I welcome your help, | |
| 7 | but to make my life easier I'd like to request the following: | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | - Don't change the version numbers! | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | If your changes are extensive, I will have to work hard to | |
| 12 | integrate them into my version. If you check it into SCCS locally, | |
| 13 | the version numbers will likely be kept. IF you check it into RCS | |
| 14 | or CVS locally, please use -k to keep the version numbers, and | |
| 15 | please use branch deltas (1.21.1, 1.21.2, ...). If you don't do | |
| 16 | this, I will likely be unable to use your changes; life's just too | |
| 17 | short. | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | - Do not distribute changed versions. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions | |
| 22 | of the file command for FTP, then the "archie" server finds and publishes | |
| 23 | the hacked version, and people all over the world get copies of it. | |
| 24 | Within a day or two I am getting email from around the world | |
| 25 | asking me why "my" file command won't compile!!! Needless to say this | |
| 26 | detracts from the limited time I have available to work on the actual | |
| 27 | software. Therefore I ask you again to please NOT distribute | |
| 28 | your changed version. | |
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| 30 | ||
| 31 | Thank you for your assistance and cooperation. | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | Mark Moraes Christos Zoulas | |
| 34 | moraes@deshaw.com christos@astron.com |