X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: djgpp v2.04 release? Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:25:25 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse AT aioe DOT org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Bytes: 2117 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:37:01 -0400, Mateusz Viste wrote: > I use the "beta" v2.04 since many years, and I can't help wondering > why isn't this the official current version by now? It provides > much-needed improvements, and in my (limited, yes) experience it's > highly reliable. If I'm not mistaken, v2.03 came out over 10 years > ago already. > > Please do not misunderstand me, I am not pesting or anything, just > wondering, and I can be only grateful for such amazing piece of > software as DJGPP. I guess the real question would be: is there > anything inherently wrong with v2.04 that it is kept in beta stage > ? or any roadmap that would indicate what is missing yet? > Yes, there are some things inherently wrong with v2.04. I and others have posted on these issues here in the past. v2.04 seems to work correctly in a Windows 98/SE dos console, but has a variety of problems and errors when used in 16-bit RM with MS-DOS v7.10 (which comes with Windows 98/SE). AIR, when these issues were brought up before, DJ stated that v2.04 was only designed to work correctly for DOS console windows, such as within Windows 98/SE, Windows XP, Windows NT, etc and then went on to say the issues with 16-bit RM hadn't been fixed because no one is contributing to DJGPP anymore. Rod Pemberton