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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:56:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install thingy
In-Reply-To: <325CAF3C.3F55@cs.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961010125231.27096G-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> I think that the installation process should run `djverify' as its last
>> stage, to verify the installation.  It might also run `djverify' at the
>> beginning (or during) the installation, to gather necessary data about
>> the system (why duplicate the code?).
>
>Well, the final djverify will be designed to be run at any stage of the
>process:  before you install anything, during the installation, or after
>you've installed.  Also, unless it works by returning error codes to the
>installer, I don't see how the latter would be able to properly
Error codes would be a first signal for install to know that there's someting
wrong.

>interpret what djverify reports.  Hmm... it's an interesting question. 
You'd have to format errors output to the log file in a two-fold manner. Those
usefeul only for the user would begin, say with two asterisks and those
helpful for instal with three. Perhaps DJVERIFY should have a special
command-line parameter that, when used, would make it produce a BINARY report
file to be used ONLY by install. This file would contain detailed information
on all encountered errors.

>Mark, if you'd like to work on coordinating with djverify so we can work
>something like that out, I'd be more than happy to help.  :)
I'll be glad to cooperate with you!

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