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Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:30:28 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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CC:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>,
	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: [zippo-workers] Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Make 3.79.1 uploaded
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> > Actually although having a DSM in the zip file would help, if there
> > isn't a DSM in a zip, I think zippo should use it's own pre written
> > DSM's (it comes with several) and try to install it..
> 
> The default DSMs must be so general that they are useless.  We might
> as well ask that zippo be able to install without any DSM anywhere in
> sight.  All it takes is unzip the package and pray...

I think there's a bit of confusion here. I think Kalum is referring to the
DSMs that are distributed with zippo. On the to-do list is a way of
matching the ZIP file name to its parent package, when the ZIP file does
not contain a DSM. That way a user could do e.g.:

    zippo -i sed302b.zip

sed302b.zip does not (IIRC) contain a DSM. Since zippo has a small
database of available packages, it could scan this and match sed302b.zip
to the parent DSM. Then it knows how to install sed.

I don't think Kalum was suggesting that we have a generic default DSM.
That would be pretty useless.

BTW I don't that distributing a lot of DSMs with zippo is the way to go.
As I mentioned before, zippo should ship with a few necessary DSMs until
all packages contain DSMs. Then we can remove the DSMs distributed with
zippo, since they will no longer be needed.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
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