Distro version numbers - Was:; Re: [Gllug] RH 7.1 -> 7.2 upgrade problems

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Wed Nov 28 00:28:23 UTC 2001


> When I said 'funded and actually done', you can't deny the 'funded'.  I

Oh no :) that's useful, indeed.

> agree that the 'done' is technically inaccurate - however at least some of
> this work would not get done at all if it wasn't funded.

I'd prefer to think that either it would get done more slowly, or it
wasn't worth doing --- but in practice this may only be true if you
think like the hackers who wrote the code :)

(but maybe not. People thought that hackers would never bother to write
user-side applications, but things like Gnumeric pretty much disprove
that.)
 

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