From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: List of DJGPP packages
Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:23:37 +0100
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Hello.

Manuel Collado wrote:
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> At present I feel the available facilities (zip-picker, pakke, 00_index
> files, etc.) are rather unconnected. When compiling my list, I had to
> manually inspect the contents of many archives to complete the list.
> Only dsm files have precise information, but a lot of archives, mostly
> legacy but also some recent ones, don't have them.

DSM files don't have to be in the legacy archives. pakke can install packages
using DSMs stored somewhere other than in the package archives.

One solution to this problem is to write DSMs for all the legacy packages and
put them in a package, e.g.: djgpp-legacy-dsms. pakke actually comes with DSMs
for some legacy packages.

> I'm thinking about an interactive global installer/maintainer set on top
> of pakke + wget + unzip32, capable of handling legacy archives.

Laurynas Biveinis started an interactive installer. It's called KITE. Its
source is distributed with pakke. You may want to talk to him about it. See
the pakke home page for more details:

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

Why do you need unzip32 as well as pakke? pakke can unpack packages.

Let's talk some more about this. Regards,

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

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