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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP V2.03 Refresh Beta
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:10:50 GMT
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Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> DJGPP release V2.03 has been available since January 2000.  In that
> time a small number of bugs have been discovered and corrected.
> Windows 2000 and Windows XP were released with some bugs in their DOS
> support.  The goal for the refreshed release was to provide complete
> binary compatibility and fixes for known problems that were simple
> and low risk to fix.  The updated version works with Windows ME,
> Windows 2000 and Windows XP in addition to earlier platforms.
> 
> Fixes included in the update distribution:
> 
>  Windows 2000 and XP long file name support fixes
>  Windows 2000 and XP program nesting fixes
>  Windows 2000 and XP debugging breakpoint fixes
>  Windows NT, 2000 and XP sbrk address wrap fixes
>  Windows ME fixes in rename and mkdir
>  __dpmi_simulate_real_mode_procedure_retf_stack fix
>  Symify fixes to prevent crashes on symbol interpretation
>  Error message instead of crash if no selector for _dos_ds
>  Termios read bug fix on STDIN
>  Format fix in strftime
>  Freopen will always reuse same handle
>  Nesting will recover selectors (long makes should not fail)
>  Itimer fix for usecs == 0
>  Long path bug fixes (to prevent being treated as /)
>  FSEXT fixes for dup and dup2
>  Y2K fix in djasm
> 
> More details (and html links to updated distributions) are available from:
> 
>   http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_203.htm
> 
> The files can also be retrieved using ftp from:
> 
>   ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/v203u/
> 
> Some key GNU distributions have been rebuilt with the updated library
> to make installs and building other packages easier on Windows 2000 and XP.
> 
> If you have a chance (or need any of the fixes mentioned) please try out
> the new distributions.  If the distributions are an improvement over the
> current distributions they will replace the files on Simtel.

Wouldn't it make more sense to distribute it as DJGPP 2.04 and
later release the "in-the-works" 2.04 as 2.05?  I hate to see
modified versions with no obvious markers.  It makes checking
things by binary identity impossible.

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