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Please add Andrew V6 to the release.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Feb 25 13:08:51 1994

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 13:08:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-77@MIT.EDU

I almost missed the opportunity for this. 

As part of Release 7.7 we should go from Andrew release 5.2 to Andrew
Version 6. 

Advantages: 
	contains port to LINUX 
	contains cleaner port to Solaris 2 
	contains bug fixes 
	contains, as standard methods, previous MIT-local hacks 
	this is the version they support.  

User impact: 
	User visible changes are minor, and part of the already-in-place 
process of weaning users from certain MIT-local hacks and going to 
the standard way of doing things.  Release notes will (as always) be provided. 

Scope of Work: 
	wdc gets the version 6 release, compiles it on our platforms 
	wdc produces a list of mit-local hacks that should be deleted that have
user impact and gives it to the 7.7 team for review. 
	there will be a period of burn-in and testing. 

Disadvantages: 
	The amount of work is not zero 
	the amount of user impact is not zero 

I believe that going to version 6 is a good balance of putting in a
little effort to keep us current, continue our progress on removing
mit-tooling, continue our progress on treating EZ as third party
software, and to minimize the effort responding to bug reports. 

The effort to implement and transition should be a tiny bit less than
the effort expended to go between 5.1 and 5.2 that we did for Athena
release 7.6. 

-wdc 
 

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