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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com>
Subject: Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:52:20 +0100
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On February 12, 2002 11:54 pm, Larry McVoy wrote:
> And it's not like this makes arch bad, this is one place where it isn't as
> good as some other choices.  But arch has other areas where it is better,
> it is less pedantic than most systems about what it will try and apply.
> It's the uber patch library if you ask me, and that has real value.
> Why the patchbot people haven't picked up on that is beyond me, they're
> off trying to write something "simple", which I think you'll agree is
> a strange, there is nothing simple about this problem space.

The patchbot people, at least one of them, is busy working on a totally
unrelated problem ;-)

I'm keeping an eye on this.  The patchbot version 1.0 will in fact be simple
and useful at the same time or I'd better seriously consider retiring.

-- 
Daniel
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