Re: New version of Bob's C compiler

[Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:15:48PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Gregg.
> 
> > Go ahead folks and send me flaming mail off list, but here goes.
> > If a new one has been posted to his page, then will it be mirrored
> > anywhere on the general ELKS pages, and FTP sites?
> 
> Who wants to conduct a poll to decide whether this is a good or bad
> idea? I can see viewpoints both ways...
> 
> FOR:	Much of ELKS becomes simpler with the latest facilities.
> 
> AGIN:	ELKS becomes dependent on having the latest BCC compiler.

True, elks should be still compilable on the common distro Dev86
package.  However, I will go and package up both a Mandrake style and
RedHat stye rpm and be happy to submit those to all, if we can encourage
package maintainers to update then it's not too nasty to ask ppl who
compile from source to ensure they are using a recent edition.

By the looks of it Debian unstable is on 0.16.3 anyway so are probably
keeping an eye out on Robert's page.

Maybe we should say the next major release of Elks will require a recent
Dev86, and concentrate on helping distro's get the most recent Dev86 and
dosemu and elksemu happily working.  Then we can try and clean up the
code based on new compiler features.

BTW, I think things are broken for SIBO atm, need to fix but need
time...

Paul