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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: When should I download SLS?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 15:50:52 GMT
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- In article <C1HpJ4.ICL@cs.uiuc.edu> jyelon@cs.uiuc.edu (Josh Yelon) writes:
- >If I don't wait long enough, the new version will still be badly bug-ridden.
- >
- >If I wait too long, the new version will be replaced by a newer version.
- >
- >
- >How do I know when to grab it?
- >
- >- Josh
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- It should be safe now.
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- When the compiler and libraries are upgraded like they just were,
- the ripple effect bounces from one end of SLS to the other.
- Even the RAMDISK has to be upgraded to the new library.
- Plus, many things broke and had to be recompiled.
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- Add to this the gzip upgrade.
-
- Anyways, usually a week or two after the upgrade, it is pretty safe.
- But it is a catch 22. The longer you wait, the more refined it becomes,
- but also the more out of date it gets.
-
- Peter
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