Andy> I thought that most other GNU projects would immediately Andy> issue a minor patch rather than withdrawing the release like sed 2 point oh something Andy> this. I.e. 21.4.7a or 21.4.7-1 or whatever. I did that; I reverted the patch and "21.4.7fixed" available from CVS as release-21-4. 21.4.8 (with Nix's revised patch) is being built right now. Andy> Then you can just remove the broken tarballs without Andy> removing the release itself. What difference does it make what we call it? The fact is that *I* *me* *personally* messed up, and I don't want users who habitually grab whatever is latest without reading the lists to be hosed by something that builds but doesn't work. Admittedly I shouldn't have pulled the r21-4-7 CVS tag; that is now fixed (it's been restored as r21-4-7-is-broken). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py