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- From: robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: re: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.164358.253@winkle.bhpese.oz.au>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:43:57 +1000
- References: <0096002A.BA95BC00.3347@tchden.org>
- Organization: BHP Information Technology, Newcastle
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- Personally, I don't care if DEC port PATCH or not. Mostly, you have to
- shutdown an application to apply a patch or an upgrade, but if it is
- easier for the distributer to get me a patch rather than a recompiled
- image, fine!
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- However, I'd like to see DEC port almost everything else first! If they're
- going to spend development time, please let them spend it on porting
- products that we use everyday, not products that we may be able to save
- a bit of time with. It's a bit hard to patch a non-existent image!!
- (Some stuff is not expected to be available until 1994! Surely you could
- have sent me a CD distribution of the new images by then!)
-
- Secondly, compare the experience of the average VMS patcher with that
- of your average ALPHA patcher. I hope this doesn't offend anyones
- pride too much, but I wouldn't really put a lot of trust in a patch on a
- fairly new machine (You can't even buy them yet!) compared to a newly
- compiled program. How many ALPHA gurus can there be in the industry by now?
- And so what proportion of developers will be able to successfully make use
- of PATCH?
-
- I would hate to see us lose functionality in the move to ALPHA! That's
- backward. However, there is certain functionality which is of everyday
- importance and, for a majority of users, that doesn't include PATCH.
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