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Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:46:01 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk>
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 19:03:29 +0100
>>From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk>
>>
>>>If it is easy to make it work for all versions including 2.7.x, why
>>>drop it?
>>
>>If someone's willing to test and maintain DJGPP CVS for 2.7.x, then I 
>>agree with you. Does such a person exist?
> 
> 
> What's there to test?  A conditional using __GNUC__ and __GNUC_MINOR__
> is something we can trust even without testing.

I don't think one can rely the approach of thinking "it's a simple 
change, it'll just work". This has bitten me in the past. So I am 
pessimistic about even simple changes. Hence, I think it needs testing. 
But that's just my opinion.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."
   -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek