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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:49:44 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.3 alpha 1
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Hello.

It gives me great pleasure to finally announce a release of zippo - 0.1.3
alpha 1. But what is zippo? zippo is a package manager for DJGPP, similar
in style to rpm, the package manage 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.

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 can be downloaded from the link below. You may also want to read the
zippo & DSM documentation.

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

Remember that this is an alpha version, so it's a little rough around the
edges. It basically works, so it's ready for a testing release. I'd
appreciate any feedback about zippo - the program itself, DSM format,
DSMs, documentation, whatever. Any help in writing DSMs for packages that
don't have one would also be appreciated.

Well, I hope zippo is useful! Bye,

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

"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
--- Gottfried W. Leibniz