C News patching scheme

[arrakis]

In article <1990Sep17.010600.11421 at vicom.com> lmb at vicom.com
	(Larry Blair) writes:
>In article <1990Sep13.203645.12937 at scuzzy.mbx.sub.org> src at scuzzy.mbx.sub.org
	(Heiko Blume) writes:
>=since cnews has become really stable, i would suggest posting the
>=whole thing soon. that would also be an opportunity to start using
>=release numbers and patchlevel.h etc. (i like files like cnews-1.0.tar.Z :-)
>
>Patch _numbers_?  In C News?  What a novel idea!

I rather like the C-news patching scheme.  What do people find so unpleasant
about it?

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