Sender: richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com Message-ID: <373EFB50.1F3498A5@bigfoot.com> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:07:28 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.1 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP workers Subject: Re: DSM/scripting spec, version 0.1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > How many packages are really going to require scripts anyhow? > > It depends on how zippo is going to work. Almost every package, at > least those from GNU, needs you to run install-info. If this is part > of the scripts feature, then many packages will need it. Since we are providing install-info, we can assume it's trusted. Why not just have zippo run install-info automatically? Or maybe have some scripts compiled into zippo that are run by another directive: builtin-post-install-script: This could occur multiply, e.g. builtin-post-install-script: instinfo builtin-post-install-script: echo "Hello Mum" > Our bitter experience is that READMEs don't solve problems for too > many people. How many people would dismiss the README without reading > it? Half? 80%? wanna bet? ;-) Er, me for a start . I've never used install-info either. So, when I get this working, at least I'll be able to read all the READMEs I've never looked at before. > Perhaps this (i.e. whether the README is displayed before or after the > installation) should be a part of the script specification; and maybe > we need to allow for two parts of README, to be displayed bafore and > after. Indeed - new script directives: pre-install-readme: [File name] post-install-readme: [File name] I suppose for completeness: pre-uninstall-readme: [File name] post-uninstall-readme: [File name] > I wonder who would actually go to the length of using all those fine > features? ;-) I guess it depends how many I code! Seriously though, I think it will useful even I don't put everything in.