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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:05:14 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	DJGPP announcements <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
CC:	DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
	Zippo Workers <zippo-workers AT egroups DOT com>
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.3
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

It gives me pleasure to announce zippo 0.1.3. But what is zippo? zippo is
a package manager for DJGPP, similar in style to rpm, the package manager
for RedHat Linux. With zippo you can:

* install packages,
* uninstall packages,
* upgrade packages (warning: still experimental, may cause damage / data
loss)

using fairly simple command-lines, e.g.:

    zippo --verbose --install gmp311b.zip

to install GMP 3.1.1 binaries; or:

    zippo --verbose --upgrade share/zippo/db-avail/bnu210b.dsm

to upgrade to binutils 2.10 from, say, binutils 2.9.5.1 beta.

zippo can do its magic by using DSMs, which contain descriptions of a
package. zippo comes with DSMs for many DJGPP packages, although the list
may not contain all the latest DJGPP packages. I hope to remedy this in
later releases of zippo.

zippo should appear sometime in the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET and its
mirrors. When it does appear, you should be able to download it using
these URLs:

    ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo013b.zip
    ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo013s.zip

These are the binary and source distributions respectively. If you just
wish to use zippo, download the binary distribution. Otherwise download
the source distribution.

In the meantime zippo is available from the zippo page, using the URL
below. You may want to read the zippo & DSM documentation available from
this page.

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

If you have any comments, problems, etc., please mail me.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
--- Gottfried W. Leibniz

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