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Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:01:56 +0000
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>
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.6 release 2
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Hello.

I'm pleased to announce version 0.1.6 of zippo, a package manager for DJGPP.
This version of zippo is mainly a bugfix release over 0.1.5. Users of zippo
should upgrade to 0.1.6. The changelog is here:

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

(Release 1 was not widely announced, because it was found to violate the GNU
GPL, because the sources of wget were not distributed with the zippo sources.
This has been fixed for release 2.)

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 gmp40b.zip

to install GMP 4.0 binaries; or:

    zippo --verbose --upgrade 'binutils 2.11 (binaries)'

to upgrade to binutils 2.11 from an earlier version.

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. The latest DJGPP packages have DSMs in
a package called djgpp-dsms, which can be found in the v2 directory of the
DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET as ds??????.zip, where the '?' symbols represent
the date.

zippo is available from the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET and its mirrors. You
can download it from here:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo016b.zip&name=zipo016b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo016s.zip&name=zipo016s.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. Installation instructions are here:

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

The zippo binary distribution comes with a program called dsmcheck, which can
be used to check the syntax of DSMs.

You may wish to read the zippo home page, using the URL below. You may also
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 [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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