Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/18/08:04:33
There is or used to be a contributor to this newsgroup (John M. Aldrich) who
wrote a rather useful program called 'verify' which pretty much told you what
was minimally required and what was optional for whatever you had in mind. It
searched your disk to see what you had and what was missing with respect to the
distribution. I thought it was quite useful.
Of course, such a program would require maintenance, such as updating perhaps
an 'ini' file that contains the name of a package and its version and what it
is required and optional for.
Then again, it could be that with the entire DJGPP distribution relatively
small compared to dollars per gigabyte hard disk space for today's systems and
the better network bandwidth, it probably became the case that the user would
not bother with what package they needed to download, and so they DL'ed and
installed the whole thing, and not worry thereafter about whether anything was
missing.
On 17 Oct 99, Rodeo Red was found to have commented thusly:
> In 4.5 What Files to Download?
> Q: What's the minimum set of .zip files I need to download?
>
> It says :
>
> v2gnu/gpp281b.zip
> The GNU C++ compiler binary (the docs are part of the
> gccNNNb.zip package, see above), the C++ header files
> and standard C++ class libraries, including the STL, and their
> docs.
>
> Which implies that this file includes C++ libraries. However the zip
> picker says v2gnu/gpp2951b.zip, which I guess is the equivelent file in
> the new version, is a C++ compiler. Then it says v2gnu/lgpp295b.zip are
> the C++ libraries. However, there is no mention in the faq of any lgpp
> files . Is v2gnu/lgpp295b.zip neccesary for the C++ library or not ?
>
>
> Red
Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara TURKEY
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