From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10210091627.AA21740@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP Clio 2.04 WIP update
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Date:	Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:27:36 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To:	<000c01c26f7e$976ab370$0a02a8c0@p4> from "Andrew Cottrell" at Oct 09, 2002 08:27:50 PM
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>  The unofficial DJGPP Windows 2000 / XP site url is
> http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm . The main html
> page then has two options, the 2.03 refresh page or the 2.04 wip page.

I'm thinking we should reorganize.

We have Windows 2000/XP issues - but those are almost all fixed in the
V2.03 refresh.  So I think Win 2K/XP becomes a information link from 
a V2.03 updates/refreshes/patches page.  

I propose a new page, probably on DJ's server, which gives a history
of a release, refreshes, and pointers to known fixes or workarounds
for bugs.  This would replace my refresh page in the future.  Someday
soon we create one for the V2.04 release which is sparse for a while :-)

Andrew's current page becomes the V2.04 alpha build page, with notes on
various build issues.  If some of those are Win 2000/XP specific that's
fine - it's just a platform specific issue (like DOS vs. Windows).  If
you read the content on Andrew's page, it's really not Win 2K/XP
specific anymore.

Richard's page is the schedule/feature/coordination information page
(it's currently cross linked with Andrew's).

> The major showstopper left with regards to 2.04 is with rm.exe, in summaryu
> File Utils 4.1 rm.exe buitl with CVS LIBC fails and CoreUtils 4.5.1 rm.exe
> built with CVS LIBC works. 

I believe File Utils 4.0 built with CVS was also working fine, so there
is some incompatibility between the 4.1 source and how it assumes the
library calls will act compared to the CVS tree.  4.1 built with 2.03
also works?

Does CVS + rm 4.1 only have problems on Win2K/XP, or also on other
platforms?

There are also some suggestions on Richard's page as what should go into
2.04 - but I'm not sure how far we are away from many of those features.

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