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On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 14:45 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Feedback from the consumer end of the producer-consumer link :-) |
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> > The motivation is fine and well, it didn't quite work out, we call |
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> > this a "bug". |
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> > The only real mistake was trying to slipstream it in without |
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> > notification or warning. devs all agree we should never do this, but |
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> > it is so ... tempting. |
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> > I've made the same mistake myself many many times, and each time it |
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> > came back and bit me hard :-) |
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> What I like is the speed it got corrected. People that don't sync often |
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> most likely didn't even know it ever changed. |
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I got bit, on a 6 monthly major update across multiple systems - what |
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were the odds of that happening? |
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Despite that, its small potatoes in the scheme of updating perl/python |
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and other major packages ... |
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BillK |
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