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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "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
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:28:39 +1000
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> > > 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. ;)
I will post another message after reading the updated page.

> > > 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.
DXE3 is not in there.
> > > * 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?
No. I have been using this since the 3.2.2. was released by Andris.

> > > * 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.
Should save you some time I hope.
> > 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
I forgot about these.
> >     - 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
Sounds okay.
> I might have to look at moving house this Saturday. Hopefully that won't
make
> much difference to the release.
Hope it goes okay.

Andrew