X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3F95A0A3.9AE0DDEF@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:09:55 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.23 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Re-evaluate DJGPP 2.04 release schedule? References: <3F9292DF DOT 355C815D AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Richard Dawe wrote: > So DJGPP 2.04 alpha 2 was supposed to be release in September. Well, it's > October now and it doesn't look like it's going to be out this month either. > So perhaps it's time to re-evaluate how we're doing the 2.04 release. > > Some points: > > * I don't have much spare time these days and when I do, I'm feeling less > and less inclined to spend it hacking on DJGPP. After sitting in front > of a computer at work all week, I'd rather not do that for the entire > weekend. > > * Not much work has been done on DJGPP in general recently. > > So I'm wondering if we should bugfix what we have and push the nmalloc > and C99 maths stuff into DJGPP 2.05 (whenever that will come out). Then > we could release 2.04 faster. [snip] Thanks for the responses so far. DJ, Eli: You've done DJGPP releases. What do you think? Have you seen much demand for or testing of 2.04 alpha 1? I haven't seen much in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, but perhaps people e-mail you guys directly. Thanks, bye, Rich =] -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ] "You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek