Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:37:17 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com
cc:	robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net, dj AT delorie DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: iostream concern
In-Reply-To:	<199802051757.AA053681426@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980208133652.6339D-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> I don't see it as such.  How are we removing a feature?

We are removing DJ's gxx.exe by overwriting it.

> The new gxx will do the 
> exact same thing - it compiles c and c++ files, and it links in the 
> c++ libs.

No two different programs can do exactly the same thing, unless they
share the same source code.  DJ's gxx is something utterly different
from gcc.c.  At the very least somebody should actually compare what
these two programs do in different cases.

> There have been over 100 downloads and no complaints yet...

We had this situation several times whereby nobody complained during
beta-testing, then an official release triggered a flood of them.
Keep in mind that people who download experimental versions do not
represent the general population of users, so there are always some
cases which aren't tested by them.

But hey, this is only my opinion.  If you feel strongly about
overwriting the old gxx, go ahead.  I don't let unzip overwrite old
versions on my machine anyway.

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