Sender: rich AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <38BC22D3.CE8C6DB7@bigfoot.com> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:49:39 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Bison 1.28 ported to DJGPP References: <200002290934 DOT KAA14067 AT mars DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Martin Stromberg wrote: > > > > Zippo, once finished, should be common on every system. Since it > > > will > > > have some built-in scripting capability, it is OK for this task. > > Richard Dawe wrote: > > In fact, I have the intention of adding support for external scripting > > languages too, e.g. spawning bash to modify DJGPP.ENV would be quite > > easy. > > > > The DJGPP Software Manifest (DSM) for the package would have a > > dependency on bash (whatever version), so that the user cannot install > > the package until bash has been installed. > > And how do you install bash and its changes to DJGPP.ENV? zippo doesn't require DJGPP.ENV or CWSDPMI (it has PMODE/DJ built-in), so it's perfectly capable of installing everything from scratch. In fact, this is how I updated to 2.02 - I reinstalled (almost) everything using zippo. Maybe I have missed something here - what changes does bash make to DJGPP.ENV? I don't remember anything from trying the bash 2.03 beta binaries. -- Richard Dawe richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/