[427] in SIPB bug reports
Re: /usr/sipb/*bin/man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 23 20:57:55 1989
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 20:58:56 EST
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>Release man pages only get updated at release time. Our man pages get
>updated whenever we update our software, and our software gets updated
>more often as well.
>It is entire possible/probably that we will continue to provide
>discuss, latex, xdvi, etc. in our locker even after it is in the
>release. In that situation, I would think that the sipb bindir and
>mandir should be before others in paths because that way users always
>get the most up-to-date software, which quite possibly will not be the
>software in the release.
>Of course, there's an advantage to using the binaries on the RVD's --
>they'll probably load quite a bit faster.
For speed improvements, if the binary is the same in sipb and on the
packs, why not put simlinks in the sipb locker then? (Of course this is
after we are sure that 6.1x is really out to the whole world) Of course
keep the binaries as discuss.old, etc.
Ezra
