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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:09:44 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.04 status page / 2.04 alpha 1 release schedule
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Hello.

Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> 
> > Please could people check the 2.04 status page, to make sure that I
> > haven't forgotten any issues:
> >
> >     http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/status204.html
> I will print this and have alook while watching a movie on TV tonight.

I've made some updates, so make sure you download it tonight too. ;)

> > Current schedule for the 1st alpha release of 2.04:
> >
> > * Midnight GMT 23rd April 2003: Code freeze.
> I will do a get now and kick of some builds to check that what's in there
> now is okay. In the morning I will check for a label and do a get based on
> the label.

AFAIK the only stuff that may not have gone in completely is the DXE3 stuff. I
may make some build-system fixes, if it doesn't build everything we need for
the ZIPs.

> > * Sometime 24th April 2003: dj*204 packages prepared and uploaded to DJ's
> > server.
> 
> What version of GCC is to be used for the official release? (2.9.5.3 or
> 3.2.2)

I was planning on gcc 3.2.2, binutils 2.13. Basically the latest and greatest.
Will this cause any problems?

> > * Packages rebuilt with 2.04: Andrew, are you still OK with doing this? We
> can
> > split the work, if you'd like.
> I'm still using a 56K modem and as such it's slow to upload the files. I
> have packaged the batch files that I use to do the complete build and am
> uploading them to clio. If you check in about 30 minutes (assuming all goes
> well) there are links on the URL in the 2.04 build utils section after the
> files for download.

OK, I'll download those. I think have an older version of the scripts, but I
never got round to trying them.

> Before releasing the dj*204.zip files could you do at least 2 re-builds of
> the following, just to be safe that there are no nasties introduced in the
> last few days:-
>     - make 3.80
>     - bash 2.05
>     - file utils

Also vital IMNSHO:

- sh-utils 2.0.11
- textutils 2.0

>     - GCC 3.2.2 (this is where bugs in the other 3 apps usually show up)

OK.

> > * Sometime 28th April 2003: General release.
> Sounds good.

Let me know how you want to split the package uploads. Perhaps I could upload
binaries of:

* make 3.80
* bash 2.05
* fileutils 4.1, sh-utils 2.0.11, textutils 2.0
* gcc 3.2.2
* binutils 2.13

I might have to look at moving house this Saturday. Hopefully that won't make
much difference to the release.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]