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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1010924141908 DOT 26299C-100000 AT is>
Subject: Re: which crashes
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:31:11 +1000
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> > I checked out the differences between Which 2.11 and 2.12 and the
changes
> > are with the man pages only. I couldn't see who produced the DJGPP port
as
> > it has allot of DJGPP changes compared to the original which.c source.
>
> I have a few more complaints about the ported Which.  For example,
> there's no DJGPP-specific README anywhere in sight, and it looks like a
> user is supposed to run "sh ./configure" to configure the package.  These
> things shouldn't be left without saying them explicitly.
>
> > The next time I build the Which package for testing under WIn 2K should
I
> > include these changes?
>
> I don't see any sense in producing a binary that is known to bomb...
>
> > I can also produce a source package as well.
>
> Any binary distribution should be accompanied by a source distribution.
> If you produce the binary from modified sources, you should make those
> modified sources available as well.  That's a GPL requirement.

If no one does it before me I will add this to me list of work to be done. I
will produce a Which source and binary release for Win 2K testing and then
normalise the packages to be more like the normal DJGPP packages and while I
am at it I should update it to 2.12.

If any one else wants to do this or starts this first could you please let
me know so I do not waste my time.

Thanks,
Andrew