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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:37:36 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.5
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Hello.

It gives me pleasure to announce zippo 0.1.5. This release fixes some
command-line bugs in package matching in zippo 0.1.4. There are also some
small command-line enhancements. Users of earlier versions of zippo should
upgrade. The full changelog can be found here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/changes.txt

But what is zippo? zippo is a package manager for DJGPP, similar in style
to rpm, the package manager for RedHat Linux. With zippo you can:

* install packages,
* uninstall packages,
* upgrade packages (warning: still experimental, may cause damage / data
loss)

using fairly simple command-lines, e.g.:

    zippo --verbose --install gmp311b.zip

to install GMP 3.1.1 binaries; or:

    zippo --verbose --upgrade share/zippo/db-avail/bnu210b.dsm

to upgrade to binutils 2.10 from, say, binutils 2.9.5.1 beta.

zippo can do its magic by using DSMs, which contain descriptions of a
package. zippo comes with DSMs for many DJGPP packages, although the list
may not contain all the latest DJGPP packages. I hope to remedy this in
later releases of zippo.

zippo is available from the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET and its
mirrors. You can download it from here:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo015b.zip&name=zipo015b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo015s.zip&name=zipo015s.zip

These are the binary and source distributions respectively. If you just
wish to use zippo, download the binary distribution. Otherwise download
the source distribution. Installation instructions are here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/install.txt

The zippo binary distribution comes with a program called dsmcheck, which
can be used to check the syntax of DSMs.

You may wish to read the zippo home page, using the URL below. You may
also want to read the zippo & DSM documentation available from this page.

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/

If you have any comments, problems, etc., please mail me.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/