Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/02/23/18:58:41
>> I noticed that several large DJGPP2 zipfiles have really recent dates
>> (today or yesterday). Why is this, and how important is it to download
>> the new versions?
>
>Eli answered this, but to repeat, it was mostly a few remaining bugs
>and packaging issues. You only need to upload the new files if you're
>having problems with the old ones, but you might want to update
>djdev200.zip anyway to get the fixed ftell().
>
>For the record, I'm not doing maint releases for V2. They caused too
>much confusion in V1. The next V2 release (well, officially) will be
>2.01. The GNU programs will be updated asynchronously to core
>releases (hence the separate directory) as new releases come out.
That's fine, but why don't you at least provide a log of major changes
(like the NEWS files in some GNU programs) so that people can know what
has changed?
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