Message-ID: From: Shawn Hargreaves To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Mother Novell, DJGPP, and Emacs: Friends? Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:43:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >>>> That would be a good idea for all3932 (latest Allegro) also, as >>>> it is essentially 4.0. It has been stable for months. >>> >>> Then why isn't it on SimTel? >> >> The package maintainer (Shawn Hargreaves) seems to have abandoned >> Allegro for some reason; he isn't even on the mailing lists anymore. I'm hard at work in a new job at Climax Studio's new Brighton office, writing a Playstation 2 racing game. All good stuff, and it's going really well at the moment, but after sitting in front of a computer all day, I don't have so much enthusiasm for doing more coding in my free time :-) My involvement with Allegro is limited to when I'm in between other projects, or when I'm bored with my day job, as was the case through most of last year. Don't worry, though, because there are plenty of other highly compentent people who are still hard at work on improving Allegro, with an active mailing list and CVS repository. The reason it hasn't been released as 4.0 is because there are still some things which are known to not work at all, which is in my opinion not acceptable for a major release, but in the meantime anyone who wants to can use the unstable version from http://www.sunsite.auc.dk/allegro/wip.html (currently 3.9.32, I think). I don't see any problem with uploading that to Simtel if someone cares to do it, although the 3.12 stable release should probably be left there as well. You really ought to discuss this with the more active maintainers on the Allegro mailing list, though. As far as djgpp usage is concerned, there isn't all that much difference between 3.12 and 3.9.32: most of the changes are to do with the addition of Linux, Windows, and BeOS support. > Thats very strange, Allegro was his most succesful project, and IIRC > he was nominated for a free sosftware award (fsf.org)because of it.. I still lurk on the mailing lists, and I'm sure I'll get involved again at some point if my real life job gets less time consuming. At the moment I'm having way too much fun playing around with the PS2, though :-) -- Shawn Hargreaves Lead Programmer Climax Studios Brighton