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Re: You left texinfo.tex out of the release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 24 15:28:02 1994

To: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-bert@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Aug 1994 15:22:37 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 15:27:54 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>


> The only purpose upgrading it would accomplish is, a couple of
> releases forward it would be "broken as to be unusable" again.
> Athena is not (and shouldn't be) in the business of updating the
> packs every time FSF releases something, and it's bound to get out
> of date.

Texinfo 3.1, the last version, was released May 23, 1993, well over a
year ago.  Please do not be bigoted against software simply because it
comes from the FSF.


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