Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:48:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl To: Eli Zaretskii cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Install thingy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Mark Habersack wrote: > >> I just want to know if there's a point in writing an installation program for >> DJGPP? If you all judge it's worthwhile, I will write it. So, please, let me >> know what do you think about it. > >It makes sense IMHO to have an installation program which targets people >who don't have a clue about installing software. It should be >exceedingly simple in operation and as fool-proof as you can get. That I was thinking about something similar to Slackware installation utility. Similar interface but more fool-proof and intuitive. >means that it should not depend on any particular unzip program (or lack >thereof), on availability of previous DJGPP installation, DPMI host etc. I plan to use zlib from InfoZip to provide internal decompression, integrate the executable with PMode extender. This makes the program entirely stand-alone. I imagine that it would run in concert with djverify, wouldn't it? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs, The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear, Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity, sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity. You who I directed with a lover's will, you who I let hypnotise the lens. You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare. You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask, just like a greasepaint mask... -------------------- http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel -------------------