X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Received: by 10.129.116.65 with SMTP id p62mr9142432ywc.11.1434569940303; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:39:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.18.194 with SMTP id 60mr159485qgf.12.1434569940282; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:39:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 References: <201506091712 DOT t59HCPci004068 AT delorie DOT com> <557739E0 DOT 6070608 AT gmail DOT com> <55775E64 DOT 2090901 AT gmail DOT com> <5579ED42 DOT 6070309 AT gmail DOT com> <5579FE8D DOT 3080501 AT gmail DOT com> <557B436F DOT 1050101 AT gmx DOT de> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <779efaf6-8ebf-4f2a-a526-a2773e3909b4@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: DJGGP 2.05 upgrade problems. From: "rugxulo AT gmail DOT com" Injection-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:39:00 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bytes: 2872 Lines: 29 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Hi, On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 1:29:22 PM UTC-5, rug DOT DOT DOT AT gmail DOT com wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 4:35:14 AM UTC-5, RayeR wrote: > > > > Please could someone clarify that DXE3 can be unloaded? > > I don't know. IIRC, unless I'm misunderstanding (probably!), I was > told that original DXE was designed by CWS to be very simple (and > actually portable, although that never materialized). > > DXE3 was a later modification by Daniel Borca, but it wasn't > portable, and I think he gave up in lieu of his hacked DJELF, > which he considered a better option. > > But neither of them further continued much efforts on it, so > it just never got a lot of use. Honestly, I think most people > agree (Eli? that old FAQ bit about [EDIT] DLL smell?) that static > linking is just easier, self-contained, esp. since everything > is (allegedly) easy to recompile anyways. My point was that you may want to ask CWS directly. He's as close as you're going to get to the truth. Daniel Borca is, AFAIK, long since disappeared from DJGPP, so he's not much help. BTW, the whole bit from the FAQ is apparently here, though he does (surprisingly) seem to avoid the "DLL smell" terminology: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq8_15.html