Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 11:47:58 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Anshuman Pandey <apandey AT u DOT washington DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [Q] Which programs to port?
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On Thu, 7 May 1998, Anshuman Pandey wrote:

> I would like to know where I could learn more about which programs are to
> be ported to the DJGPP Project, and how encompassing the Project aims to
> be. For instance, are there plans to port _all_ GNU programs, among them 
> Gnu Chess, zoo, uudecode?

There's no centralized planning in DJGPP.  This project is run by
volunteers who determine what things they would like to accomplish
according to their personal needs and preferences.  This applies to
porting other packages as well.

That said, there's certainly a merit in porting as much GNU software
as is feasible (*all* GNU packages won't port, since some of them rely
on X-Windows and other features which are impractical to emulate).

So if you feel like porting some package which wasn't ported yet
(check out the v2gnu directory on SimTel.NET mirrors), feel free to do
that.  If you bump into problems when porting GNU packages, posting
questions here will usually yield help.