Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
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	on Wed, 10 May 2000 12:28:43 -0400)
Subject: Re: Idea: Cutting edge DJGPP (alpha DJGPP?)
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> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:28:43 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> Now that 2.03 has shipped, I see no reason not to start making these
> features-in-CVS.

Yes, definitely.

> If we can come to some consensus about who should be
> allowed to check things in (history, reliability, quality, etc), I'm
> willing to add some more people to that list to spread the work
> around.

Yes, please!

> I'm sure Eli is tired of being "it" from the 2.03 work :-)

Not tired, just terribly swamped, both by DJGPP-related work (other
than djdev) and on my daytime job.  I have a gazillion djdev-related
items on my todo, but no time to do them...

Here are a few items to keep in mind by those who will work on djdev:

  - there are a couple of bugs filed on the bug-tracker that should be
    solved;

  - please create src/docs/kb/wc204.txi (and a reference to it in
    kb.txi), and put there a short description of each user-visible
    change or bug-fix;

Some larger library-related projects that AFAIK are awaiting
volunteers:

  - Internationalization (a.k.a. i18n) support.  I think support for
    UTF-8 in the wc* and mb* functions would be a useful first step.

  - Support for functions added in glibc lately.  It looks like the
    GNU configure scripts are probing for lots of functionality we
    don't have; it would be nice to add some of it.

  - libc.info needs indices.  The trivial part is to modify mkdoc.cc
    so that it will generate @findex from @node.  A less trivial part
    is to go through the *.txh files and add index entries for global
    variables, environment variables, and other features described in
    the docs.

  - C99 support.  I know Martin is working on that, but this will need
    much more than a single volunteer could handle.  For example, the
    new math functions are in themselves a large project.

  - How about adding bzip2 support to DJTAR?  Many developers nowadays
    use .tar.bz2 at least for development snapshots, and it's a PITA
    to go through the separate bunzip2 stage.

I have more projects to suggest, if someone is interested ;-).