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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:07:16 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Hallo Gareth,

2001-11-19 17:43:13, du schriebst:

In the whole discussion about package tools I want to point out
that there are other possibilities:

http://www.gnupdate.org/about.xml

Open Source (LGPL), parts are based on libcurl which is already in the dist
included.  I built successful libcomprex and leakbug with shared libs and I
guess the other components will build too, need to check this now.

It sounds very 'modern', they use RDF (XML Resource Description Format).
It is a young project, so it should be possible to take influence to do the
right thing from the beginning.

Comments?

Gerrit
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