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Q: I found and corrected a bug in one of the programs distributed with DJGPP. Where should I put it?

If the program is larger than, say, 50K bytes, it's best to upload it to a public site where everybody can get it. You can upload your contribution to a special directory on the DJ Delorie's FTP server. This directory is write-only, and it gets purged every couple of days, so be sure to write to DJ Delorie about your upload; he will then move it to the /pub/djgpp/contrib directory.

If you decide to upload, please send mail to the djgpp-announce list with a brief description of your program/patch. (The message will get reflected to both the news group and the DJGPP mailing list, so you don't have to cross-post there, but it also goes to people who only subscribe to djgpp-announce list because they want to get such announcements and nothing else.)

If your program is more than a patch or a beta version, you might consider uploading it to the DJGPP archives on SimTel.NET. If you decide to do it, write to DJ Delorie and ask him for uploading instructions. Material uploaded there gets automatically distributed to all of the SimTel.NET mirrors throughout the world, which makes it easier to get.

DJ Delorie requests that all contributed packages uploaded to his server be source-only distributions; don't bother to include libraries or pre-compiled binaries, since DJ deletes them when he opens the zip archive. This is so there will be no danger of distributing programs infected by a virus. Please avoid uploading self-extracting archives because DJ extracts them on a Unix machine which can't run DOS executables.

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