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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:17:05 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fix for pthread_broadcast
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In-Reply-To: <E94FF01DFF6CD31186F4080009DC3615020285D8@nttwr2.tower.bldgs.butlermfg.org>; from rdparker@butlermfg.com on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:07:53PM -0500

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
>> I can't make any guarantees about 1.3.3 since I don't know exactly
>> how stable 1.3.2 will be.  It would help if people would try snapshots
>> but of course no one does.
>
>Does anyone think that snapshots would see more usage if setup were able to
>download and install them?  Would this be a worthwhile behavior?

I guess I've always thought that if the simple act of downloading something,
uncompressing it, and copying it was too much for someone then the quality
of whatever bug reports they could come up with would be pretty pathetic.

cgf