[net.sources] Hack distribution

play@turing.UUCP (02/10/85)

I just received the 25th letter telling me not to post updates as
simple diffs; people change the hack source themselves and have a
lot of trouble applying the diffs to their modified sources. So
next time it must be a context diff. But the previous simple diff
already produced an article larger than notesfile can handle, and
context diffs will be considerably larger. My question is: what
do you prefer for version 1.0.2: a context diff (280K) or the entire
source again (400K)? [For comparison: a simple diff between versions
1.0.1 and 1.0.2 is 75K.] I can also compactify the whole source
mechanically, throwing away layout and comments and shortening the
identifiers; this might reduce the whole thing to perhaps 150K.
Reply by mail (and certainly not to net.sources).

aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) (04/20/85)

[Your scrolls catch fire ... --More--]

I already said this in net.games.hack but let me repeat it here:
    I WILL NOT MAIL/REPOST PARTS OF THE HACK DISTRIBUTION
(and I surely hope nobody else will clutter up the net with it).

In dozens of letters people complain about neighbouring sites
who will not forward net.sources.games, about filesystems that
were already full with four or five reposted versions of dpy
(life, war), about computers that were down - you name it.

The proper thing to do is to put a question in net.wanted.sources
and get the hack source via uucp or mail from a nearby site.
I am told that the source is available for ARPA sites via anonymous ftp
from seismo.