Date:	Sun, 30 May 1999 11:53:38 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: gdb 4.18 for DJGPP (alpha)
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On Sat, 29 May 1999, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> > ??? How could these diffs help when someone looks for a source file
> > that wasn't included in gdb418s.zip?
> 
> In my opinion anyone who really wants to make new features in GDB
> available should download the complete original sources.

That's exactly the problem: by the time that someone gets to
understand this, the original sources of GDB 4.18 as you used them
might not be available anywhere.  For example, imagine that GDB
maintainers find some grave bug in the distribution and upload a
slightly different one.  Or perhaps too much time passes and v4.18 is
withdrawn from the GNU FTP site.  This did happen, you know.

> It would be really hard to include
> all the missed source files in a separate zip since the first task will be
> to filter out all the files from gdb418s.zip (I have renamed some files to
> fit the 8+3 namings!)

You can always put all of the files into gdb418s.zip.  Or you could
leave gdb418s.zip as you made it now, and have gdb418s2.zip include
all the files, even those which already are in gdb418s.zip.

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