From:	blp01 AT uow DOT edu DOT au (Brett Porter)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: About DJGPP v2.02
Date:	Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:17:21 GMT
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:56:10 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>If you are unhappy with the DJGPP release schedule, please volunteer
>to do some work on it.  Or pay us, and we will do it faster.
>
>It is extremely annoying, to say the least, to have all my weekends
>dedicated to DJGPP and then hear comments such as above from people
>who didn't contribute anything to ease my workload.  Even a simple
>thanks instead of ``ages since'' and ``what gives'' would be nice.
>
>And, btw, DJGPP *is* constantly updated.  Not yearly, almost dayly.
>All those ported GNU packages which bring you the latest GNU releases
>don't come for free, you know, they also require a lot of work by
>somebody.  The single DJGPP component whose last official release was
>relatively long ago is the library, but even it has an updated version
>available from the net where all the known bugs are corrected.

You seem to be getting a lot of this lately. Just thought I should let
you all know I still appreciate the work being done!

Unfortunately I don't have spare time to help out with DJGPP, and any
attempt to delve into the sources has had my head spinning violently
:) I don't have much experience with _huge_ projects.

I try and put back in by answering questions on the NG when I can and
by releasing toolkits for free like C-Desktop and BlasterLib (which
will be out Real Soon Now (TM) :)

So, three cheers to Eli and all the DJGPP development team!!!

Cheers,
Brett
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