From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10304231426.AA12366@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.04 status page / 2.04 alpha 1 release schedule
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:26:08 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk (Richard Dawe)
In-Reply-To: <002901c30999$30fbcb00$0100a8c0@acp42g> from "Andrew Cottrell" at Apr 23, 2003 11:06:44 PM
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> 3) Charles sent out a potential fix for the uclock issue. See the following
> URL:-
> 
> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/2003/0
> 3/09/22:02:19

I thought about this last night.  The code as posted isn't perfect, but
probably could be checked in for wide spread testing - and works better
than the current code.  We did discuss a hybrid approach which would be
better (but more complex).  So if anyone has any strong opinions on
commit yes/no for uclock() on win2k/XP, let me know.

> 4) The issue of smaller images is either allready resolved or is the UPX
> issue. By this I mean that a binary
>    package turns out to be almost the same size if the exe's are zipped or
> are UPX'd and then zipped. As
>    we allready zip the packages up then they are small, but when expanded
> they do take up more space than
>    if they wer UPX'd. The problem is that currently there is no beta or
> release version of UPX that supports
>    the current DJGPP exe file format (when Binutils 2.13 is used). The next
> release of UPX shoulf fix this.
>     As such I think this issue can be removed / assimilated into the UPX
> issue that is not specific to 2.04.

I disagree - I think we should look at our module include list on a few
images and try to clean up redundant code and/or consider other options.
But I don't think this is a high priority - just something to address the
FAQs of newbies.