Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:45:16 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199609101245.IAA21396@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960910135140.10696H-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:03:05 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: V2 alpha 980908 -- djdev and djlsr


> 	1) DJGPP_MINOR on lib/specs is still 0, not 1.

Oops.

> 	2) What about making libc_p.a (and maybe also libc_g.a) in a 
> separate zip, so whoever needs them, could have them without rebuilding 
> the entire library?  Is that planned in the final release?

I have no plans for this.

> 	3) bnu27b.zip is larger than 1.44MB.  Isn't that a constraint?  If
> not, maybe I should change the packaging of Emacs too (someone who tried
> it told me that for people who have a direct net connection, it's a pain
> in the lower back to download 8 files instead of 1 or 2). 

I don't pay much attention to floppy size constraints these days.
I'll check that zip and see if there's anything I can do about it, but
if that's how big it is then that's where it stays.  I'm hoping to set
up a CD-ROM distribution after this release, and none of our files are
bigger than 680 Mb.

However, you should continue to maintain separate zips for two reasons:

1) It might make sense to not download one of them if you don't need
   those features.

2) Network failures make downloading really big files prone to
   failure.