why not just reroll as 2.0.31pl1?

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Greg Ames wrote:

> Bill Stoddard wrote:
>
> > > We are definately trying to make this a beta. Perhaps Ian can be
> > > pursuaded (with money, food, etc..) to do a reroll,
> >
> > Once the tarball is rolled, that's it, move on to the next version.
>
> This is a very error prone part of our process.  I got around it in 2_0_28 by
> sending preliminary tarballs to people on platforms I knew were problematic,
> before making anything public.  Madhu told me my first tarball built with
> autoconf 1.4.2 didn't work for HP-UX.  So I re-rolled on daedalus for most
> platforms, and on Linux w/autoconf 1.4.2 for Darwin.
>
> Greg
>

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