From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: When will 2.04 be released?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:29:06 +0100
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Hello.

Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:
> 
> Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote in
> news:3d820bea DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
> 
> > V2.04 is still in development.  The develpment team has discussed doing
> > a release (you can read the archives of djgpp-workers for the details).
> > In summary, we need some volunteers to finish out some missing features
> > and testing before it's completely ready.
> 
> I can help in beta testing, _maybe_ in development (if no now-
> level/assembler knowlage is needed) where can I read more about getting
> involved ?

1. Start following djgpp-workers. You can subscribe to this from
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ .

2. Test out the binary packages built against DJGPP CVS by Andrew Cottrell. I
can't remember where these are available from, but he posts the URL to
djgpp-workers fairly regularly. (I'm sure Charles or Andrew will follow up
your post anyway.)

3. Use DJGPP CVS as your "normal" DJGPP tree, e.g. in c:\djgpp. Actually, you
may want to wait for a snapshot / alpha release / beta release to come out.

DJGPP CVS needs a lot of testing, since lots of have things have changed.
There are more special cases - Windows '9x vs. 2k/XP - so some subtle things
may have broken.

I kind of volunteered to be the release manager for 2.04. Unfortunately the
past couple of months have been a bit crazy and I haven't really got back into
doing DJGPP stuff yet. However, I should be able to periodically dedicate a
fair amount of time to DJGPP, so I'll try to get a snapshot out sometime in
October.

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]