Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:37:18 +0300 (IDT)
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Peter Allen wrote:

> I though the whole point of "The cathederal 
> and the bazaar" was that linux was written in a bazaar style environment 
> rather than a cathederal.

AFAIK, there's no bazaar as far as Linux kernel development is
concerned.  Applications and other packages is a different matter.

> One point I will make about DJGPPs development (totally unrelated) 
> is that it is much more isolated from the users than linux's

This is simply not true.  There's no isolation whatsoever between
DJGPP users and the DJGPP development team.  All those who actively
participate in DJGPP devlopment read this group regularly, answer
questions and explain the internal operation of the software.  And any
person who wishes to be involved in the development can subscribe to
the developers' mailing list (if she or he is ready to read some
boring technical discussions about subtle issues ;-).  Also,
pre-releases of many packages and libraries are regularly announced
here, for those who want the latest and hottest stuff.

> IMHO because DJGPP is not going under *intensive* development i.e. like
> something like wine is

I don't know on what facts do you base this observation.  As far as
I'm concerned, the last 5 months was as full with ``intensive'' DJGPP
development as I can possibly bear, and I know that several others did
a tremendous amount of work as well, now and before.

> library bugs from shared librarys would not be huge problems.

IMHO, library bugs are always a huge problem.  A case in point is the
bug in v2.02 that disables profiling.  For any serious developer, this
is a grave problem.