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From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Re-evaluate DJGPP 2.04 release schedule?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:17:35 +0300
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On Sunday 19 October 2003 16:34, Richard Dawe wrote:
> Hello.
>
> 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.
>
> It worries me that few bugs have been reported in DJGPP 2.04 alpha 1.
> AFAICR only one or two bugs have been reported. Maybe people just aren't
> using it.

For my programs I'm using almost only development versions, but not all new 
features. So I haven't found such problems about what it would be worth to 
report. At least I see that it builds Ok with current GCC (perhaps should 
install this build)

#-----------------------------------------------------------
Build of DJGPP CVS version (Last updated 2003 Oct 17  at 12:48 +0300)

Cross-gcc version:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: /disk2/src/djgpp/gcc33/gnu/gcc-3.32/configure --prefix=/usr 
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp --disable-nls 
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc : 
(reconfigured) /disk2/src/djgpp/gcc33/gnu/gcc-3.32/configure --prefix=/usr 
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp --disable-nls 
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3.2

System: Linux geomets2 2.4.21-rthal5 #5 Mon Jun 16 19:42:21 EEST 2003 i686 
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

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> Are people using DJGPP much these days? Is it dying out?

I don't know. At least I'm using now mostly Linux for work I still have DJGPP 
applications related to some hardware control, but I'm not modifying them too 
often (it seems that some will need rather serious new features, so I'll have 
to do more with DJGPP for some time, perhaps I also build gcc-3.3.2 for DJGPP 
then). In more distant future it's planned to move also these to Linux.

Andris