Sender: richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com Message-ID: <37595575.AAA84FA2@bigfoot.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 17:51:01 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.1 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP newsgroup Subject: Developing command-line install program like rpm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. I'm currently developing a command-line install program for DJGPP packages called zippo. This will be used as a back-end by Laurynas Biveinis's LBInstDJ and FrontZippo programs. It's being designed to allow easy installation of groups of DJGPP packages. So, I have the following questions for DJGPP users: 1. What do users expect to be in a C development package? e.g. make, rhide, etc. 2. What do users expect to be in a C++ development package? 3. Is there any point having a supplementary libraries package containing e.g. Allegro & libsocket? For that matter, do most people use Allegro by itself or are there add-ons that are commonly used? 4. I guess there should also be a group for bash users, which would probably include shellutils, fileutils, grep, find. 5. If there are any other groups you can think of, please tell me. Please reply by mail as well as to the newsgroup, because then I can keep the responses. The zippo home page is here: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/ On this page you can find the spec for the DJGPP Software Manifest, a file which tells zippo how to install packages and also contains lots of info on the package. If you're really keen, you can download a source snapshot of zippo. Bye, -- ========================================================================== Rich Dawe - 4th-year MSci Physicist @ Bristol University, UK richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com, http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ==========================================================================