Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 20:54:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: perl for djgpp
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To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Cc: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
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> What about creating a directory in the distribution to put these no so common 
> zip files. In this way a person that doesn't know much won't download un-needed 
> stuff.
> For example a dir called v2gnu/advanced.

Bad idea, IMHO. All of "djgpp-workers" should by now be well aware that
"persons who don't know much" will almost interpret this kind of
distinction wrong 80% of the time. 

If one package contains of several zips, and users will need instructions
as to which ones to get, it's probably better to put them all in one
directory named by the package, and put a README in there as well that
tell people what is what, and what to download. This might even prove
beneficial to be done with the current emacs distrubition.

Hmmm... seems we actually will need something like DJ's what-to-get WWW
page, but with a big button labelled "Yes, that's it. I want to download
all these right now", that does as it says. Of course, the links would
have to point to the 'nearest' mirror server, however that may be possible
to implement. 


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