From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<9609211757.AA14915@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: [KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com: (Fwd) PoV-Ray compiling with DJGPP2.01]
To:	dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date:	Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:57:41 -0600 (CDT)
Cc:	robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
	kendallb AT scitechsoft DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<199609200032.UAA11900@delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Sep 19, 96 08:32:43 pm

> > Now my question: Should this be done? If yes, how sould I send the changes
> > to you DJ? As diffs or should I upload the the packages completely again
> > (bad for me, because very slow)
> 
> Don't bother.  The only tools that produced a.out (other than this
> one) are the old 1.10 (1.09?) djgpp tools, and they're not usable any
> more (the objects) anyway.

Hey wait a second here ... there are some valuable tools (like the obj 
format converter, other old cross development, old V1.x libraries) which
need the a.out support or they break completely.  Removing support is a
change in functionality which isn't really necessary (just turn it on!),
and won't add much size (compared to the typical feature bloat).

If we casually remove features which other people depend on - I could 
easily argue that 1/2 the current distribution should disappear.  Is there
a strong reason NOT to include a.out support?  

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