From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424014244.GA7676@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E685C1D@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:33:45PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote on April 23, 2012 7:17 PM
>>On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:44:23PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote on Sunday, April 22, 2012 4:59 PM
>>>>I've made a new version of ed available for installation. This version
>>>>is a refresh from the currently released FSF version of this package.
>>>
>>>They're still updating ed!?!?!
>>
>>I was pretty surprised too. I couldn't believe I'd missed several revisions.
>>
>>Who in the world still uses ed?
>
>I was thinking more along the lines of "They are still finding
>bugs!?!?!" and "They are still adding features!?!?!"
>
>Can we agree that ed is a better exemplar of software that just won't
>go away than B20?
Yes, I think we have to concede that point.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 22:44 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-23 23:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-23 23:45 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-04-24 10:26 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2012-04-24 14:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-24 15:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-04-24 15:46 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-25 3:16 ` Warren Young
2012-04-25 3:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-24 1:34 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-24 1:42 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2012-04-26 8:39 ` Lee D. Rothstein
2012-04-26 14:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-26 15:55 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-27 2:45 ` Warren Young
2012-06-03 23:53 ` zukkoshopservice
2012-06-03 23:54 ` zukkoshopservice
2012-04-25 13:42 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-25 14:08 ` Christopher Faylor
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