PE> Unless the OS/2 development team has extremely bad management
PE> practice, any bug reported after the new development stream was
PE> started would have been identified and fixed (possibly with different
PE> fixes) in BOTH parallel environments.

JM> If the bug was discovered after the new product had gone to production?  If 

If it had already gone to production, then yes, you need to release a
bug-fix for both versions.  Just how old is FIXPACK17 compared to Warp 4?

JM> the bug was not considered important enough to stop production?  If it 

If IBM goes for more than a month of "no new bug-fixes", then
they should be in a position to release a fixpack at the same time as the
product.  I see your point though, and can understand why a company would
not wish to do that. :-)

JM> wasn't even the same bug?

Not sure what you mean there.  ALL bugs reported on the previous version
must be evaluated for impact on the following product.  It's what keeps our
submarines from sinking, anyway.  :-)  BFN.  Paul. 
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