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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 11:25:16 +0100
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Hello.

Edmund Horner wrote:
> I know it sounds selfish, but what about the core DJGPP distribution:
> are there any opportunities for improvement in the libraries,
> documentation, etc.?  (I'm particularly interested in the libraries.) 
> Or are these too fragile to really support patches from realitive
> newcomers?

If you want to know how DJGPP proceeds, you should subscribe to the
djgpp-workers list and lurk for a while. It's a pretty open list. If you
send a patch in and it's good, it generally gets applied. There's usually
a bit of discussion on each patch. I'd say that documentation patches are
probably the easiest to get in, since they are easy to test (just use your
eyes & brain ;) ).

The newsgroup & mailing lists help page is here:

    http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mailing-lists/

HTH, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
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