Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] official version of netatalk
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 13:06:03 EST
Right now it's a small link in the patches page. The version that people
see and will try out will not be functional under 2.2. I think that it
would be important to make this information very noticeable.
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Harry Zink wrote:
> >Since the updated version is
> >now the only working one, it would be less confusing to end users to make
> >it official.
>
> Brilliant suggestion, albeit it's not necessary in this context to have a
> 'more' or 'less' official version, as long as it is well communicated
> which version works best.
>
> Furthermore, there might be various political reasons that might preclude
> umich from incorporating asun's work into the 'official' distribution.
>
> So, that makes the 'official' version less official, and the non-official
> more official, by virtue of functionality and actually being able to work.
>
> Weird, sure, and possibly confusing, but, hey, the answers are out there
> (actually, it would be nice if a link to Adrian's version could be
> displayed more prominently on the umich site, and a more noticeable note
> were placed there to indicate the functionality issues with the new
> Kernel, and where to get a working implementation.
>
> Harry
>
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Andrew McNabb
Argus Systems Group
amcnabb@argus-systems.com
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