Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 16:10:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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        Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP library DSMs
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On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> Currently DSM and zippo allows multiple 'requires' and 'depends-on' directives:
> requires: DPMI
> requires: gcc >= 2.95
> 
> DSM might allow multiple 'author' etc. directives as well, what about it,
> Rich? I see that current libzippo's code does not support that, but we
> can easy add that.

I think the DSM spec should say which directives can be used more than 
once, if only some of them are.

For that matter, the syntax of the value should be defined (if it needs 
to).  For example, it wasn't clear to me that gcc >= NNN is a valid 
syntax.

> > 5) To have a useful partition using the `group' directive, we need a
> >    list of standard groups.  
> 
> Currently we have 3 groups: C development(gcc, binutils, djdev, faq, info-
> reader(texinfo), make), GNU (lots of stuff) and for newbies and former Borland
> programmers: gcc, binutils, djdev, rhide, faq.

Suggest to add the list to the DSM spec.  This list probably needs to be 
enlarged; I will try to suggest a few additional groups later.

> >    We also need to address the possibility
> >    that some packages would want to belong to more than a single
> >    group.
> 
> We don't have to do anything special to achieve that:
> group1:
>   requires: this
>   requires: that
>   requires: foo

The question is: how do I say in a package's DSM that it belongs to 
several groups?