Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 04:47:18 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
cc: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>,
        Dennis Janssen <nessnaj AT worldonline DOT nl>,
        OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Sources
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On Sat, 15 Mar 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> There's an easy way to solve that problem permanently.
> First pop all the sources out and use rcs to put all of them
> into the next system.  I believe rcs is covered by the g.p.l. and
> it has been known to save programmer's bacon in the past too.

Yes, but that would require rcs being installed on the particular
person's computer who wants to analyse the source code.  Since
many people will be downloading the sources and editing them to
their hearts content, the SCS would be useless because many
people would have the sources.  Therefore *ANY* SCS is
practically useless.  The best way to release the sources will be
in a standard ZIP or TGZ archive (probably ZIP).  The archive
will decompress into the source tree which can be built with
"make".  That way one only needs to have the "make" program, and
the proper C compiler.  For example:

1) Download source archive.
2) Unzip archive.
3) CD into the dir that you unzipped it into.
4) type "make"

Then all you need is the proper C compiler that was used.  This
will probably be Borland C++ 3.1 or Micro C or some other 16 bit
compiler.  The sources will also probably be ported to DJGPP as
well. (The utilities and COMMAND.COM anyways.)

Any SCS will just complicate the whole mess.  I believe that Gene
is porting the code to a single C compiler, and extracting
sources from the SCS that was used and writing makefiles anyways.

TTYL


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