From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Subject: Re: DJ: can you put the new files separated
Cc: DJGPP-WORKERS AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 14:12:32 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:  <9611041412.aa19326@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

Hi

>On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>> Can you put the corrected files of the package in separated files with the 
>> package structure?
>> In this way is much more easy to download just the patched part of the 
>> package.

And Eli replayed:
>If you are talking about the library patches, just subscribe to
>djgpp-workers and install every posted patch which you believe is
>important into your private copy of the library.  That's what I've been 
>doing for ages.
OK, I'm in the workers list, but I suscribed recently.

>Anyway, this raises the important (IMHO) issue of DJGPP updates between 
>major releases, and I'll just grab this opportunity to suggest something 
>I've been thinking for a long time.  It might be a good idea to have a 
>directory where users could find patched exe binaries and either a 
>patched .a libraries or (better still) compiled .o files ready to be put 
>into a library.  The source-level patches should be also available there, 
>as the least docs of the patch and its reason.  I even thought about an 
>automated way that will take patches submitted to the bug-tracking system 
>and produce such patched files automatically, but that might be too 
>far-fetched (and many bugs don't get submitted there anyway).
Good.

>An alternative would be to update the affected zips much more frequently 
>(like every month or so), but that would probably be too much of a burden 
>for DJ and for the people who would like to download the fixed zips.
I don't think that's a good idea create dozens of intermediate zips because the 
people who ask for a problem must say "... I have DJGPP v2.01 downloaded on XX 
of XX ..." and that's a total mess.

SET

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