From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	New features of FSF packages
Date:	Mon, 4 Nov 1996 14:14:48 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:	<9611041414.aa19401@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

Hi:

Eli wrote:
>I think that binary distributions of the GNU packages should include the 
>original NEWS file which comes with the FSF sources.  Otherwise, people 
>who are used to earlier versions of that package could fail to recognize 
>the new features without fetching the source zip.  (As we all know, the 
>docs don't always get updated to reflect the changes, and even if they 
>do, it is a non-trivial job to browse through the docs looking for new 
>features.)

>Comments?
I agree, some package have a lot of changes and sometimes these changes are a 
little incompatible with previous releases.

SET

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