Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 1997 14:42:10 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Suggestion for future DJGPP development -- depend on bash
In-Reply-To:	<199709142109.RAA26526@tam.dorsai.org>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970915144135.22620G-100000@is>
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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> Hm-m-m.  Good point.  Without the ability to rename files still inside the
> zip or tar.gz file, the damage is already done.  I will have to re-think
> that one, and examine what emacs does before I speak further on that
> subject.

Emacs distribution just doesn't have files whose names clash in the
8+3 namespace, or are illegal on DOS and not automatically converted
by DJTAR.  I kept reporting such cases as bugs until Richard Stallman
corrected them.  That's all there is to it.

> Well, maybe it *will* anger a few users out there.  But why do you say
> "impractical"? 

Because people want packages to be built out of the box for them.  And
on Unix, they can expect that, since the standard tools there are
generally powerful enough.  If they don't get this, many of them won't
use GNU tools.

> Look, there is a lot of knowledge needed to attempt a re-build.

It doesn't have to be this way.  In fact, on Unix, it isn't, you just
run ./configure and say "make install".  Most of the DJGPP ports
usually would build with a single "make", perhaps with a configure
step, provided you have the required tools; no extra knowledge is (or
should be) required.

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