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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:50:12 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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CC: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com,
        Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: [zippo-workers] Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Make 3.79.1 uploaded
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I was under the impression that the available distribution lags behind
> the features I use in the DSM files (in particular, I think you told
> me that built-ins are not yet supported except in your development
> sources).

Yes, I recall that. Rich, how it is?

> As things are now, I'm not even sure the effort I invest in creating
> the DSM files is justified: I suspect that most of the people don't
> use zippo to install packages.

Currently it is OK: zippo is still alpha, DJGPP docs (especially readme.1st and FAQ) 
do not refer to it. What must be done now is propagating DSMs through the 
packages.

Laurynas