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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:28:29 +0100
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > You can specify in DSM `install-info' as a post-installation command
> > > to execute.
> >
> > Yes, but what I meant to say that the command to invoke install-info
> > is rather generic, so zippo could have done that automatically.
> 
> I recall I've objected it earlier; however now I don't see why
> adding something like
> 
> install-info-docs: gcc.inf
> 
> to DSM would make things worse. Rich?

I'm not sure that adding yet another directive to the DSM specification is
a good idea. I think we have all we need right now.

Anyway, from reading the earlier discussion, the viewpoints were as
follows:

* Eli thought (& still thinks) that zippo should do this, since it's so
standard.

* Laurynas thought that zippo should be kept as generic as possible and
that this operation should be perform using a post-install-script.

* I (Rich) was undecided. I hadn't used install-info at the time of the
discussion.

Now that I've used install-info, I agree that zippo could do this
automatically for files with filenames of the form info/*.info and
info/*.inf. My concerns are:

* How do you know info/*.inf is an info file and not, for example, a
Windows .inf file? Unlikely, but AFAICT there's no easily identifiable
magic string at the start of an info file.

[ Incidentally, is there a port of the 'file' program ]
[ (available on Linux) to DJGPP?                      ]

* In the future zippo may not be the only DJGPP installer (*). If zippo
installs info docs automatically rather than making people using
post-install-script, then we set a precedent. A better way to fix this
problem is to write the code for zippo to support post-install-script.

(*) A fair proportion of zippo is libzippo, which could be used in other
installers, e.g. Laurynas's.

Personally I think that supporting 'post-install-script' is the best plan.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
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