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From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: When will there be another version?
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 14:12:24 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On 6 Aug 1996, PENG ZHOU wrote:
> 
> >     When is there going to be a newer version of DJGPP?  I am kind of
> > tired by all those Bugs and KnowBugs posted here.  When is DJGPP going
> > to be fixed?
> 
> With all due respect, these ``I'm tired by your bugs'' messages don't help
> a bit to get DJGPP better.  If you want the bugs to be corrected faster
> than they currently are, you have an easy way of achieving this: get the
> DJGPP sources and correct the bugs that bother you the most.  The great
> thing about DJGPP is that the source to everything is available for free,
> so you don't need to wait for the official distribution to be corrected.
> 
[...]
And just to add my 2 cents:

Check the Bug tracking system at DJ's www-server. you will find
the tremendous amount of some 80 bugs, that fall into three
categories: 
 - Bugs in beta versions, mostly, if not all closed
 - Bugs that users produced by either misunderstanding
   the docs
 - Real bugs

The real bugs fall into two categories, gcc/lib bugs and workarounds
to weed out shortcomings produced by a famous DPMI-host that
people buy for money. 

Borland (just to mention an name) shipped and sold C++ 6.0 here,
two weeks later their www-server exploded from bug patches and
by now they should have 6.1 out. If you call that professional, 
I say "Professional software? No thanks."

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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