Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:44:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Where is "genclass"?
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> I believe this is another case of DJGPP documentation doesn't match the
> distribution.  genclass was mentioned in "libgplus.info ::Proto" as a
> temporary mechanism of generating container classes based on other
> classes.  This functionality has been taken over by the C++ template
> mechanism and the STL library, and as you can see, "genclass" has fallen
> into ilmaintenance for quite some time now.  But DJGPP's G++
> distribution does not contain the script.

I think this is just an omission.  The original Makefiles in the libg++ 
distribution install the genclass headers together with the rest of the 
C++ headers, but the DJGPP distribution omitted them.  I asked DJ whether 
he remembered why did he omit them, and he told me he didn't remember.

One more reason to port libg++ 2.7.2, if you ask me.  Any takers?