Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/04/25/12:06:25
Some thoughts...
The zip picker doesn't cover all the zips, so you'd still need some
way to select additional zips.
The 00_index.txt files on Simtel have one-line descriptions of the
zips. DJGPP zips are *supposed* to have a manifest/*.ver file that
contains a one-line description of the packages. These can be used
for zips you don't recognize.
We could extend the *.ver file, or add another file, that could be
designed specifically for the installer. That way, the installer
itself wouldn't have to "know" about each zip. Not sure how well this
would work for .tgz files, we'd have to make sure those special files
are at the beginning to avoid uncompressing the entire archive just to
read one file. Same for zips, but you can skip around in zips if you
need to.
I don't think a generic installer is needed. A djgpp-specific (or at
least djgpp-aware) one is best.
If you want to do a generic one, find out what InstallShield uses for
their "input" script, and do it that way. That will let us build IS
versions of djgpp in the future with the same set of parameters. We
could have a text-based installer and an IS installer on the same CD,
for example, or use the text-mode installer as the stub for the GUI
one, so it "just does the right thing".
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