X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:28:19 +0200 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu Message-Id: <8582-Wed26Dec2001192819+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: emacs 21.1.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <10112261504.AA14845@clio.rice.edu> (sandmann@clio.rice.edu) Subject: Re: V2.03 refresh note References: <10112261504 DOT AA14845 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:04:15 -0600 (CST) > > > I think _everything_ should be updated. But that doesn't mean that > > you, Charles, need to be the one who does it all as part of the > > refresh. > > Everything is a "big" order - since that also means that every package > on every computer and every CD everwhere needs to be swapped out. I > don't disagree - but I'd like to know where to focus - which > distributions are absolutely REQUIRED to get a functional package. I think you already have those covered. Fileutils might be a first-priority addition, but given the lack of complaints, I'm not sure even in that. > > As far as the packages I maintain, I was waiting for the refresh to > > stabilize before rebuilding them. > > There are also some of the very old releases on Simtel (less features, > work great!) which should also be rebuilt. That might prove problematic: some of them might have their build procedures too bit-rotten to work. > There are some programs which obviously spawn - but I don't even know > how to make them do that :-) You could try asking here, Someone(tm) might know.