This directory contains snapshots of the current NetKit development
tree.
These snapshots are UNSTABLE and NOT RELIABLE. They may at times not
even build. Use at your own risk. If you can't deal with segfaulting
daemons and other problems that may arise, stick to the official
releases.
These snapshots are updated from time to time as circumstances dictate
and as interesting changes become available.
Bug reports, patches, complaints, and so forth should be sent to
<
[email protected]>.
*NOTE*
The netkit bug database got zapped by forces beyond my control. If
you sent anything prior to April 12, 2000 and it's not reflected in
the April 12, 2000 snapshot, please resend it.
When sending, please *do*:
- Make sure your mail has a working return address. If it doesn't,
there's no way you will get a reply.
- Send patches as plain text, not base64-encoded, if at all possible.
- Include updates for documentation if you make changes to the source
requiring them.
- Make sure you're at least working from the last release, if not the
development snapshot. Everything prior to 0.16 is out of date.
- Say what version, or date of snapshot, you're working from.
- Use diff -u to make patches.
- When discussing the code, refer to sections of code by function
names and other such markers rather than line numbers, which change
unpredictably.
- Keep in mind that we didn't write this, we only maintain it.
And please do *not*:
- Send patches that reindent the source.
- Send whole new copies of the source with your changes embedded.
(_Particularly_ not if you have reindented the source.)
- Mix code with incompatible licenses, particularly GPL and BSD.
- Send MIME quoted-(un)printable mail, especially patches.
- Send HTML mail.
If you have trouble with the configure scripts, please discuss the
problem with us rather than just sending patches to the scripts; since
the scripts are automatically generated, patches are usually not
terribly helpful.
