From: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Maintenance releases (was: Re: Next djgpp version number?)
Date: 27 Sep 1996 13:54:20 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

: > This is just to check on the correct version number for the _next_
: > planned djgpp release with the fileutils, gawk, textutils, etc.: is it
: > djgpp 2.01, 2.1, or some other number?

: The next release of djgpp's core will be version 2.01.  We're working
: on finishing it up now, but I still refuse to promise any delivery
: date.

: I don't plan on making maintenance releases like V1 - they caused more
: problems than they solved.

I assume that the reason why main releases are so problematic is that
people starting with the programs do not know how to install them or
something. To fix this, obviously it would be necessary to always
release a complete set of files, however, wouldn't it be useful to
have a set of diff files also (in cases where that makes sense, i.e.
no major library changes) that can be used to promote the previous
version to the current one. This could save old users of djgpp
considerable download time, at least when only a few things have
changed.


bye, Alexander

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