From: "Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:51:46 +0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners? References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Message-ID: <94697991201@out.newmail.net> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 3 Jan 00, at 10:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Not really. A complete DJGPP installation is very large; make a > single self-extracting zip out of it and you will end up with a huge > program, probably 10MB at least. And then there are the usual > nuisance questions like whether to include C++, RHIDE, Make, etc. True. If DJGPP was distributed as a single humongous file I could never spend the time with a monumental download at 3.6k per second over my modem > > But I do agree that unzipping several files is not much more > complicated than running a single self-extracting zip. Actually Eli, Wouldn't it be better if some kind of a small Setup program written specifically for DJGPP which could be downloaded seperately in addition to the normal Zips was written and recommended by the zip-picker. The setup program when run could check the downloaded zips and comment on any missing zips (bnu281b.zip comes into mind), ask for the installation directory, check for any LFN problems, unzip the files to the directory using a builting unzip routine and check and warn for the RHIDE -lstdcx bug and various other things. IMHO this will solve quite a lot of problems due to missing zips, badly behaved unzip programs, LFN,and a wole lot of errors. And it will be quite helpful to the newbies as well.