From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Thu Apr 24 11:51:08 1997
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:51:08 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: Postscript bug ...
In-Reply-To: <199704241001.WAA06175@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
References: <199704241001.WAA06175@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <199704241051.MAA18473@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> Ross Ihaka writes:

>> A succession of 0.49.n's would be better, I'd say. Preferably using
>> patches from 0.49 for those with slow links, but that's not all that
>> important. Heck, it's only 10 minutes across a 14k4 modem (but it took
>> more than an hour to transfer R7.tgz from here to Kurt in Vienna the
>> other day - that's between two sites with direct net connections...).

> And here was I thinking that the steam-driven abacus we use for R
> development was low tech ...

Please don't keep mentioning the performance of my network connection
again and again  :-)

> I will try to send out "important" patches, but its hard to maintain
> distinct branches and we have already diverged from 0.49 here.

Please do.  Perhaps name them like

	R-0.49-0.49.1.diff.gz

???

-k
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R-alpha: Postscript bug ...
Kurt Hornik