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As soon as the patches contain no obvious mistakes any more, I'll submit them to the GNU maintainers for binutils, gcc and gdb. However as far as I can see, using a patched binutils with an unpatched gcc will result in trouble and vice versa, so I think the patches should be somehow ``complete'' before integration into the main stream. I consider putting the project on http://forge.novell.com so several developers could join their forces with cvs.
The project could develop all its potential when all efforts in collecting pre-compiled libraries like zlib, libpng, libtiff, gtk, wxWindows and others could be collected to a library comparable to http://www.cygwin.com/ for windows, http://www.apt-get.org/ for linux, http://www.sunfreeware.com/ for solaris and fink for MacOS X. However I myself will not do that for free.
Novell supports this project by giving useful informations where needed, but not with money.
| 29. March 2003 | 1.0.0 | Initial release |
| 31. March 2003 | 1.0.2 | Fixed forgotten .patch files, additional infos on ``main'', corrected spelling, reference to wxWindows_nlm download |
| 4. April 2003 | 1.1.0 | added nlminit.c to run static constructors and init exception handling, so main does not need to be a C++ function. Added cygwin infos. Moved import directory to default novell ndk location |
| 7. April 2003 | 1.2.0 | Added support for configure scripts, zlib, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff |