Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/06/27/11:09:41
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, jdm wrote:
> I agree it would be nice to have a nice installation program
It turns out that writing an installer for DJGPP that will work reliably
on all supported platforms is not as easy as it seems. Several good
people have tried in the past, and at least one of them is still working
on such a program.
Issues that make this hard include: DPMI server that is unavailable in
plain DOS; long/short file names nuisance; unzip code that needs to be
part of the installer; and reliably detecting the different AUTOEXEC
files and modifying them so as not to screw up user's machine. It's a
tough assignment.
> or a
> step-by-step list that brings all the various issues involved in
> installing and getting djgpp/rhide to work into a single easy-to-read
> document.
I thing README.1ST is such a document, except that it doesn't describe
RHIDE, since not everybody installs it.
> Unfortunately, UNIX guys (or gals) are incapable of
> comprehending the concept of "easy-to-read". They like to hide
> everything in paragraphs and paragraphs of obfuscated techno-babble to
> impress the world with the size of their temporal lobes.
I don't think this pertains to DJGPP. If you think otherwise, please
point out which user-level documentation is guilty of these maladies.
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