Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:27:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP library DSMs
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> > For that matter, where will the group DSM be stored?
> 
> I imagine that the DSM will be stored on the DJGPP archive somewhere -
> wherever appropriate, e.g. in v2gnu for gnutools.dsm. OTOH it may be
> better to keep all the DSMs together, perhaps in a directory called
> v2packages?

This implies that an on-line net access is imperative for this feature
to work.  I'm afraid it might limit the users to a great degree (DOS
machines usually don't have net access, and even Windows users only
dial up sometimes or never).

I wonder if the problems that the group feature was designed to solve
have a different solution, that doesn't rely on additional files.
Perhaps we should discuss those problems on djgpp-workers.

> I suspect a solution to this problem may be to create a ZIP file
> containing ZIP files for all the packages in the group.

That would make really large zip files which nobody will want.