Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 05:14:29 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, The awesome and feared Eli Zaretskii commented thusly,

> 
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> > Once [zippo] is completed it should fill in the gap of the much needed
> > installer for DJGPP. 
> 
> But only if package maintainers put the appropriate *.dsm files into the 
> distributions.  From my experience, crafting a good .dsm file is not a
> trivial job...

This would be nice, but it is not absolutely necessary, for example zippo
comes with several DSM's for DJGPP ports already. Surely it can search the
package for a DSM and if it isn't found it can use one of the DSM's that
have been included with it (zippo) quite easily?

Grendel
 

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