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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 20:16:34 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.4 / DSM specification 0.5.1
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Hello.

It gives me pleasure to announce zippo 0.1.4. This release fixes many bugs
in zippo 0.1.3. For a full list see:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/changes.txt

Users of earlier versions of zippo should upgrade.

But what is zippo? zippo is a package manager for DJGPP, similar in style
to rpm, the package manager for RedHat Linux. With zippo you can:

* install packages,
* uninstall packages,
* upgrade packages (warning: still experimental, may cause damage / data
loss)

using fairly simple command-lines, e.g.:

    zippo --verbose --install gmp311b.zip

to install GMP 3.1.1 binaries; or:

    zippo --verbose --upgrade share/zippo/db-avail/bnu210b.dsm

to upgrade to binutils 2.10 from, say, binutils 2.9.5.1 beta.

zippo can do its magic by using DSMs, which contain descriptions of a
package. zippo comes with DSMs for many DJGPP packages, although the list
may not contain all the latest DJGPP packages. I hope to remedy this in
later releases of zippo.

zippo is available from the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET and its
mirrors. You can download it from here:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo014b.zip&name=zipo014b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo014s.zip&name=zipo014s.zip

These are the binary and source distributions respectively. If you just
wish to use zippo, download the binary distribution. Otherwise download
the source distribution. Installation instructions are here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/install.txt

The zippo binary distribution comes with a program called dsmcheck, which
can be used to check the syntax of DSMs.

The DSM specification version 0.5.1 has also been released. It is
available here:

    ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/dsm-spec.txt

You may wish to read the zippo home page, using the URL below. You may
also want to read the zippo & DSM documentation available from this page.

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/

If you have any comments, problems, etc., please mail me.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/