Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:05:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: s0052mol AT sun10 DOT vsz DOT bme DOT hu
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: perl 5.003 for djgpp 
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Molnar Laszlo wrote:

> In the source distribution I only included the patches, so you should 
> download the original sources from somewhere if you want to recompile 
> it. In the binary distribution I only included perl.exe, 
> perlglob.exe, and Config.pm, so if you want to test the perl modules, 
> you have to download a full distribution too.

Is it that much harder to include everything?  IMHO, making partial 
releases will get some people into trouble.  For example, if somebody 
tries to build the missing things a few months from now, they will have 
to locate the version that you used to make the port, before they can 
proceed.

I also think that all of the tools built on other platforms should be 
included in a ported binary distribution, unless some of them don't make 
sense on MSDOS (e.g., if they *require* multi-programming environment and 
won't work at all in its absence).