Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 14:42:10 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: "Peter J. Farley III" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Suggestion for future DJGPP development -- depend on bash In-Reply-To: <199709142109.RAA26526@tam.dorsai.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Peter J. Farley III wrote: > Hm-m-m. Good point. Without the ability to rename files still inside the > zip or tar.gz file, the damage is already done. I will have to re-think > that one, and examine what emacs does before I speak further on that > subject. Emacs distribution just doesn't have files whose names clash in the 8+3 namespace, or are illegal on DOS and not automatically converted by DJTAR. I kept reporting such cases as bugs until Richard Stallman corrected them. That's all there is to it. > Well, maybe it *will* anger a few users out there. But why do you say > "impractical"? Because people want packages to be built out of the box for them. And on Unix, they can expect that, since the standard tools there are generally powerful enough. If they don't get this, many of them won't use GNU tools. > Look, there is a lot of knowledge needed to attempt a re-build. It doesn't have to be this way. In fact, on Unix, it isn't, you just run ./configure and say "make install". Most of the DJGPP ports usually would build with a single "make", perhaps with a configure step, provided you have the required tools; no extra knowledge is (or should be) required.