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Date:	Sun, 09 Apr 2000 16:49:18 +0300
From:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC:	DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
	Zippo Workers <zippo-workers AT onelist DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP library DSMs
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think the DSM spec should say which directives can be used more than
> once, if only some of them are.

Yes.

> For that matter, the syntax of the value should be defined (if it needs
> to).  For example, it wasn't clear to me that gcc >= NNN is a valid
> syntax.

There is no formal syntax specification for DSM yet; many things were
discussed between me and Rich, and maybe he didn't write everything
there. But the work is moving on.

> Suggest to add the list to the DSM spec.  This list probably needs to be
> enlarged; I will try to suggest a few additional groups later.

Of course it needs: groups for C++, emacs, etc. still are not specified.

> The question is: how do I say in a package's DSM that it belongs to
> several groups?

Currently only groups can specify which packages do they have. Why do
you want it in reverse way?

Laurynas Biveinis

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