Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/04/06/11:30:26
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 06:01:08 GMT
> >
> > I keep seeing these re-releases without any visible change in
> > version numbers.
>
> Actually, such re-releases are quite rare. Fileutils is an exception,
> rather than a rule.
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember bison and bash flying by
here several times recently, not to mention all the refreshes to
handle XP.
>
... snip ...
>
> So what practical problems do you have? I fail to see the grave
> problems that would require such non-trivial changes. (The Mini-FAQ
> is maintained manually, which makes it a pain to add the info you are
> asking for.)
Oh well, rejected again :-)
As far as 'maintained manually' is concerned, using 4dos I can get
a useful directory listing with time and description with:
[1] c:\cfiles\newpage\download>type mkindex.btm
echo %=<html%=>%=<pre%=> >index.htm
dir /zkmh /[!index.htm mkindex.btm] >>index.htm
echo %=<%=/pre%=>%=<%=/html%=> >>index.htm
and the html wrappers are not needed for the mini-faq. To use
such a directory would have to hold only current releases, and
older ones would have to be moved to a sub-directory.
For what it is worth, I have a \dnld\djgpp directory that holds
uninstalled zips. To install, I move them into \djgpp and run an
install batch, which unzips *.zip and moves the zip to
\djgpp\zipsused\. I also have \djgpp\zipsused\oldzips\ to allow
me to back up.
I also do a "zip -o zipname" to set the file dates on zips newly
downloaded.
At any rate the result is that my installation contains:
>
> [1] c:\cfiles\newpage\download>dir /zkmh \djgpp\zipsused
> oldzips <DIR> 3-28-02 5:29
> bnu2112b.zip 2707938 7-15-01 11:22 Basic Assembler, linker
> bsh204b.zip 454086 6-30-01 22:18 GNU Bash shell 2.04 for DJGPP V2
> bsn129b.zip 818148 9-11-01 0:22 Bison - YACC equivalent
> cdecl25b.zip 107577 8-04-98 17:54
> cdecl25s.zip 25719 8-04-98 17:52
> dif272b.zip 293675 1-18-02 3:22 GNU diffutils 2.72, DJGPP v2
> djdev203.zip 1538147 4-06-00 9:37 DJGPP basic development kit
> faq230b.zip 679865 2-02-00 23:21 Master FAQ for DJGPP
> fil40b.zip 1353395 9-17-01 12:36 GNU fileutils 4.0 for DJGPP V2
> flx254b.zip 192733 5-22-00 1:23 FLEX - LEX equivalent
> gcc2953b.zip 1973168 3-29-01 7:39 Basic GCC compiler
> gdb511b.zip 1450671 2-26-02 17:01 GDB 5.11 for DJGPP
> gmp401b.zip 576045 2-03-02 0:04 GNU Big Numbers 4.01 for DJGPP
> gpc2-1-4.zip 2053419 3-25-02 6:39 GPC 2.1 RC4 on GCC 2.953 for DJGPP
> gpp2953b.zip 1796810 3-29-01 7:39 C++ compiler
> gwk306b.zip 539175 1-10-02 9:37 GAWK 3.06 for DJGPP
> mak3791b.zip 268854 7-26-00 7:39 Make - processes makefiles
> rh1478b.zip 2080025 11-13-00 8:55 RHIDE Integrated Development
> txi40b.zip 646656 1-14-00 12:52 Info File viewer
> txt20b.zip 1098706 9-17-01 12:45 GNU Textutils 2.0 for DJGPP V2
Maybe these techniques will be of use to somebody, or they will
improve on them.
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