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Re: Frustrated at new regression framework

To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Frustrated at new regression framework
From: Jared Solomon <jsolomon@cse.unl.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:12:41 -0600
Cc: veins <veins@skreel.org>, Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, misc@openbsd.org
In-reply-to: <200202280742.g1S7gEWU024858@cvs.openbsd.org>
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
I agree with you, Theo.  This is, with apologies to you, the second most
cool software product I've worked with (sorry, Pick and Pick-alike
databases rock my world... infinite subselect capability and
post-relational, I'm sure you understand).

So, my question is now: is the best thing to do:
1:  Update my source
2:  recompile my system
3:  patch as necessary
4:  trust that make will only build the parts with new code
5:  rinse and repeat

Is this the proper sequence?  If so, I will submit a diff to one of the
upgrade (or patching faqs) if something along these lines is not in them.

Kind regards,

Jared Solomon

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> The development process should not work that way.  OpenBSD's product
> is so high quality precisely because we develop everything in concert;
> it allows a much smaller group of peopel to work together much closer
> without having to wait for the "next release of component X that I
> need today, but the developer of X is waiting for the next release of
> Y to be ready".

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