Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:23:48 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Andris Pavenis cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gcc 2.95 distribution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > Simply I tried to get them in 8+3 filename limitations. Some packages have > *.inf (eg. gzip124ab.zip) but some *.info. gzip124a was released before v2.02, and info/DIR from v2.01 mentioned "gzip.inf". That's why Gzip has the short file name there: I didn't want the users to be unable to read the docs on LFN systems. We switched to *.info in v2.02, and removed the extensions from all the file names in DIR. So packages that are released from then on should use .info. > Currently both works. Is this true for all Info readers (RHIDE, SETEdit, InfView, etc.)? I know Emacs and the stand-alone Info do support both, but that's because there's some special code there to do that. > I can omit renaming *.info to *.inf if needed in future. Is it really > necessary? It isn't necessary, it just makes Info load the file faster (since .info is looked for first), and makes the distribution more uniform (well, eventually, when all of them use .info file names). > > - The file gxx-int.info is not in gcc295b.zip; I think it should > > be. > > It is not built when building gcc. Isn't this a bug in GCC? Anyway, I only payed attention to this because somebody once asked a question on c.o.m.d. about how do C++ exceptions work, and Robert replied that gxx-int explains that and that it wasn't in gcc281b.zip by omission. > > - The libg++ library distribution is called lgpp295b.zip, whereas > > all previous versions used lgpNNNb.zip (one `p'). Can we > > please go back to "lgp", for uniformity (and also for 2.95.1, where > > we will need the extra character)? > > > > It's already done for 2.95.1 which is not yet uploaded. Thanks.