Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/07/26/17:23:14
Hello.
Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I was under the impression that the available distribution lags behind
> > the features I use in the DSM files (in particular, I think you told
> > me that built-ins are not yet supported except in your development
> > sources).
>
> Yes, I recall that. Rich, how it is?
Builtins are not supported yet, but zippo/dsmcheck can parse them. So it
is valid to have them in a DSM (as specified by 0.4.2 of the spec), but
zippo cannot yet do anything with them.
> > As things are now, I'm not even sure the effort I invest in creating
> > the DSM files is justified: I suspect that most of the people don't
> > use zippo to install packages.
>
> Currently it is OK: zippo is still alpha, DJGPP docs (especially
> readme.1st and FAQ) do not refer to it. What must be done now is
> propagating DSMs through the packages.
Thinking about this today, I think we should aim for the following: get
zippo to handle install/uninstall well. Then we can work on the upgrade
options, etc. Once install/uninstall works well, we can release for
general use.
I've been putting DSMs in the packages that I've producing. If nothing
else, having a DSM makes it easier to test binary distributions in a DJGPP
installation.
Bye, Rich =]
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Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]
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