Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 00:41:32 -0400 From: dj (DJ Delorie) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: DJGPP Version 2.00.beta1 - in progress, please wait... I have begun uploading the FIRST BETA of DJGPP V2! I suspect it will be well into tomorrow before I get it to all the sites that will carry it, since I only have a modem, and it's 23 Mb with sources. I will make another announcement when it is fully available. PLEASE WAIT. http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ now has all the beta pages enabled, including an interactive bug tracking system. It also has the beta release already, but PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM DELORIE.COM. My server cannot handle that kind of traffic. You can, however, get listings of the zips to see what to anticipate. I've also attached the short readme and FTP info files from the V2 distribution to this mail. DJ dj AT delorie DOT com http://www.delorie.com/ ============================================================================= INFO.FTP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Official DJGPP V2 Beta FTP Sites ftp.delorie.com pub/djgpp/beta/v2 (slow, USA) ftp.idsoftware.com djgpp/beta/v2 (fast, USA) turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp pub/djgpp/2.0-beta (fast, Asia) Note: ftp.delorie.com will always have the latest copy of this file. Check there for new sites. ============================================================================= README.1ST ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the README.1ST file for DJGPP Version 2, currently in Beta. I recommend you install DJGPP V2 in a separate directory from DJGPP V1 until it is out of beta, just in case you cannot work around bugs you find. This version is not officially supported, and is being made available as part of the testing phase of djgpp development. Status and other information are made available through the djgpp web pages at http://www.delorie.com/, through the djgpp news group (comp.os.msdos.djgpp) and djgpp mailing list (subscribe through listserv AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu). Look on the web page for information on the latest versions. Report bugs through http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/beta/ If you do not have web access, mail bug reports to djgpp-v2-bugs AT delorie DOT com, where someone will manually enter them into the web-based bug tracking system. For anything else, send me mail (dj AT delorie DOT com). Version information is in manifest/*.ver within each zip. Contents are in manifest/*.mft in each zip. If you got these file at anywhere other than an official FTP site (listed in info.ftp at the ftp site), please send me e-mail. At the time of writing this file, the various packages are: djdev200 Development Kit and Runtime (required) djlsr200 Base Library Sources djtst200 Test Programs mak373b GNU Make 3.73 for V2 (recommended) mak373s GNU Make 3.73 sources gcc263b GNU GCC 2.6.3 for V2 (recommended) gpp263b GNU G++ 2.6.3 for V2 (no libs) obc263b GNU ObjC 2.6.3 for V2 gcc263s GNU GCC 2.6.3 sources bnu252b GNU binutils 2.5.2 for V2 (recommended) bnu252s GNU binutils 2.5.2 sources gdb412b GNU Debugger 4.12 for DJGPP V2 gdb412s GNU Debugger 4.12 sources lgp262b GNU libg++ 2.6.2 for DJGPP V2 lgp262s GNU libg++ 2.6.2 sources txi310b GNU texinfo 3.10 for DJGPP V2 txi310s GNU texinfo 3.10 sources Existing binaries from V1 can be used for other applications. V1 programs cannot run V2 programs, so make and gcc are being made available as V2 programs. You must also provide a DPMI environment. Look for CWSDPMI at the beta sites if you don't have DPMI already (it's in os2, nt, win3.1, qdpmi, 386max, etc). --- COPYRIGHT --- DJGPP V2 is Copyright (C) 1995 by DJ Delorie. Some parts of libc.a are Copyright (C) Regents of the University of California at Berkeley. GNU software (gcc, make, libg++, etc) is Copyright by the Free Software Foundation. DJGPP V2's copyright allows it to be used to produce commercial applications. However, if you include code or libraries that are not part of djgpp (like gnu's libg++) then you must comply with their copyrights.