From: Richard Dawe <rich AT tudor21 DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making.
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:14:18 +0000
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 15:30:09 +0200, Laurynas Biveinis
> <lauras AT softhome DOT net> wrote:
> 
> >And zip-picker style can be combined with list of all packages easy:
> >create empty packages which have nice name like 'C development' and
> >depend on gcc, djdev, binutils, etc. Those empty packages
> >(or metapackages, as they are called on Debian GNU/Linux)
> >can be presented on the list of all packages.
> 
> Except they'll need long names too.

Currently the package is not identified by the filename of its DJGPP
Software Manifest. The DSM contains the long package name (which can be
long) and a version string, which can contain lots of different info -
alpha, beta, patchlevel, date, etc.

I've tried to make it flexible and more user friendly than "what on earth
does package abcde123.zip do?".

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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