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Re: Hunt (game)

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On 2026-05-13 at 00:00 ADT, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2026 18:49:49 -0300, Jim Diamond wrote:

>> On 2026-05-12 at 05:44 ADT, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:21:25 -0400, haldir wrote:

>>>> On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:
>>>>> Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

>>>>>> Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd?  It is on my system, as part of
>>>>>> bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6
>>>>> Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't
>>>>> I see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the
>>>>> noise; it is there.


>>>> With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
>>>> noise :D


>>> its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down
>>> slackware 15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between
>>> releases again, ...

>> Who promised that?  Pat?
>> Jim

> the one and only, cant remember if it was in readme or on LQ 
> ... actually the changelog does _sort of_ mention it too 


> "Wed Feb  2 22:22:22 UTC 2022
> Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!

> Another too-long development cycle is behind us after we bit off more than
> we could chew and then had to shine it up to a high-gloss finish. 
> Hopefully we've managed to get the tricky parts out of the way so that 
> we'll be able to see a 15.1 incremental update after a far shorter 
> development cycle"

> Since Pat typcially has 3 RC's and freezes the tree, 15.0 RC1 was in 
> August '21, RC3 locked, was in Jan '22,  working on that theory  even if 
> Pat called RC1 in 5 minutes time, we wont see 15.1 until Jan '27

I don't read that "hopefully" as a promise.

Which is too bad, because it would be nice to see another release before
15.0 is completely deprecated.

I don't know if you read
    https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/requests-for-current-next-15-0-15-1-a-4175706801/
but (IMHO) there are far too many people on that list requesting far too
many insignificant updates to far too many relatively inconsequential
pieces of software.  (Yes, there are also some people pointing out
important updates to important pieces of software.)

At some point I hope Pat starts ignoring most of the new requests,
otherwise there will never be a 15.1 or 16.0.  But I'm not holding my
breath.

                                Jim

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Hunt (game) jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-05-08 22:21 -0400
  Re: Hunt (game) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2026-05-09 06:51 +0000
  Re: Hunt (game) Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> - 2026-05-09 01:09 -0400
    Re: Hunt (game) jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-05-09 13:43 -0400
      Re: Hunt (game) haldir <mordors9@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 12:21 -0400
        Re: Hunt (game) noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-05-12 18:44 +1000
          Re: Hunt (game) "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-05-12 06:18 -0500
          Re: Hunt (game) Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-05-12 18:49 -0300
            Re: Hunt (game) noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-05-13 13:00 +1000
              Re: Hunt (game) Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-05-13 20:32 -0300
                Re: Hunt (game) "Gamgee" <gamgee@palantirbbs.ddns.net.remove-6zb-this> - 2026-05-16 21:45 -0500

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