Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!amdahl!drivax!news From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION of comp.binaries.os2 Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 90 18:26:26 GMT References: <5083@loper.cs.vu.nl> <1581@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1064@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Sender: news@drivax.UUCP (news admin) Reply-To: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA Lines: 24 Kai-Uwe Rommel (rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de) wrote: }I got many replies to my article about GNU tools which I have available. }I think I will wait posting them until comp.binaries.os2 is created. }Many wrote that they don't have even the original sources, so sending }the diffs only (as suggested by one person) would not be a good idea. As the "one person" who suggested posting diffs, lets talk about why I said that. The GNU sources are of general interest to the entire un*x community, as well as other operating systems (with minor modifications). Yet I do not recall ever seeing the GNU sources posted to any of the network's un*x source groups. I have assumed that this is because the software is still evolving, and/or the source is readily available from so many ftp and uucp sources already. Can somone enlighten me on this? If the sources are going to be posted, they should be sent to a high-readership group (such as comp.sources.misc) to get the maximum benefit of sending them all over the net. I'd also prefer to see the source in its "official" state, plus the context diffs that turn it into the OS2/DOS-specific version. One last thing: please make every effort to ensure you have the latest versions before posting. The GNU sources update fairly often. -- Wayne Davison \ /| / /| \/ /| /(_) davison@drivax.UUCP (_)/ |/ /\| / / |/ \ ...!amdahl!drivax!davison