Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:38:43 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Richard Dawe spoke the following immortal words,

> Thinking about this today, I think we should aim for the following: get
> zippo to handle install/uninstall well. Then we can work on the upgrade
> options, etc. Once install/uninstall works well, we can release for
> general use.

Actually I find that zippo already handles the install quite well,
actually it is possible to install DJGPP from scratch...

> 
> I've been putting DSMs in the packages that I've producing. If nothing
> else, having a DSM makes it easier to test binary distributions in a DJGPP
> installation.

Actually although having a DSM in the zip file would help, if there isn't
a DSM in a zip, I think zippo should use it's own pre written DSM's (it
comes with several) and try to install it..

Grendel

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