Re: [AD] Allegro 4.2.0 RC2

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-08-28, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/28/05, Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's been uploaded.  Elias or Grzegorz needs to update the web pages.
> > 
> > Matthew, you were offering to do the Windows binaries, correct?
> > 
> I have individuals binaries made for BCC32, MinGW, MSVC 6, MSVC 7,
> MSVC 7.1, and MSVC 8 that include lib, bin (dll), and include files. I
> then have a global "misc" package that contains source code and
> Windows binaries for all examples and tools. I also have documentation
> packages for CHM, HTML, RTF, and Text.
> 
> I'll upload them to a.cc this evening.

Great!  Once we have done the full release we can take advantage of the
SF.net mirroring network but for now it may be easiest for the official
site to just point to a.cc for the binaries.  Is that ok?

> I have not made a "msvc make" package yet. That is the one that
> currently is called "binary" on SF - it provides the DLLs and a batch
> file to build Allegro without needing make. It's my opinion that we
> ought to just not supply that package any more as it requires separate
> maintenance and quite frankly isn't very useful with pre-built libs
> and DLLs already available.

Yep, I agree.  Let's forget about it.  I've been thinking about dropping
the patch, SRPM and -enduser.tar.gz packages as well, but maybe I have
had fast internet for too long.

Peter