Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:32:23 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:07:51 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Andrew's efforts are more than just testing Win2K patches - in effect we are
> testing the entire 2.04 CVS tree.  If these tests are OK, does it make sense
> to release a 2.04 sooner than later on this basis?

From experience, a release of a new DJGPP version takes a few months,
from the first beta to an official release.  v2.04 has quite a few new
features (FAT32, symlinks, lots of new library functions, etc.) which
will take time to test.

By contrast, v2.03 patched with W2K-related fixes does not need to be
tested, since no new features are added.

So I think an updated djdev203.zip and djlsr203.zip is a better idea:
it will take much less time, and the result will be much more reliable
than v2.04.