Message-ID: <00b601c2cc2e$88a65800$0100a8c0@acp42g> From: "Andrew Cottrell" To: References: Subject: Re: /djgpp/manifest Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:19:34 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com > > The ver and mft files are built by the scripts in the distrib > > directory of djgpp's CVS. Joe Random Hacker can run mkdist and build > > them himself. > > mkdist requires quite a lot of other packages. I'm not sure we should > ask for them. > > What's the problem of having these files in the CVS? No one ever changes > them except when a distro is made. My 2cents worth as a joe hacker who satrted off in exactly this situation in the middle of 2001 in trying to get a working DJGPP setup on W2K that I just installed and wouldn't (and still sometimes don't) take no for an answer:- If joe hacker wants to rebuild the djxxxxxx.zip files then IMHO as a hackjer and a package re-builder they should have access to the requried packages. If you are a hacker you are expected to be resourceful and if you are rebuilding libc then you should have all of the tools in order to rebuild any package. Andrew