[Gnu-arch-users] Re: pop the cork -- tla-1.2 is available

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday February 28, 2004 4:02 pm, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:55:56PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> > Of particular interest to many will be the new support (relative to
> > 1.1) for "archive signing and integrity checking" -- a facility by
> > which the integrity of a publicly accessible archive can be verified.
>
> FWIW, 30 out of 91 archives on
> http://www.sourcecontrol.net/stats/archivestats.html
> are already using it. And that's 16 out of 31 for archives that include
> "2004" in their identification.

That was a particularly interesting feature that probably drew a bunch of 
people to the pre-releases who otherwise would not use them.  It did for 
me, anyway.

I expect the use of the 1.3pre series will be smaller than the 1.2pre 
series because it's rare that a new feature will be so important.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - address@hidden

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