From:	"Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" <kalum AT newmail DOT net>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:51:46 +0600
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Subject:	Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners?
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On 3 Jan 00, at 10:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Not really.  A complete DJGPP installation is very large; make a
> single self-extracting zip out of it and you will end up with a huge
> program, probably 10MB at least.  And then there are the usual
> nuisance questions like whether to include C++, RHIDE, Make, etc.

True. If DJGPP was distributed as a single humongous file I could 
never spend the time with a monumental download at 3.6k per 
second over my modem

> 
> But I do agree that unzipping several files is not much more
> complicated than running a single self-extracting zip.

Actually Eli, Wouldn't it be better if some kind of a small Setup 
program written specifically for DJGPP which could be downloaded 
seperately in addition to the normal Zips was written and 
recommended by the zip-picker.

The setup program when run could check the downloaded zips and 
comment on any missing zips (bnu281b.zip comes into mind), ask 
for the installation directory, check for any LFN problems, unzip the 
files to the directory using a builting unzip routine and check and 
warn for the RHIDE -lstdcx bug and various other things.

IMHO this will solve quite a lot of problems due to missing zips, 
badly behaved unzip programs, LFN,and a wole lot of errors. And it 
will be quite helpful to the newbies as well.

 

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