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Date:	Tue, 18 May 1999 20:15:28 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To:	DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DSM/scripting spec, version 0.1
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salvador wrote:
> BTW: What language will support the pre/post-install scripts? in Debian
> they could be bash and/or Perl scripts. Yeap: Perl and bash are part of
> an special package called Debian-base, so any Debian system have at
> least it installed ...

I was intending to make it support any language, i.e. by checking for the
shebang (#!) notation or, failing that, the file extension.

I was intending to write the installer to check all the 'requires' fields
before installing. So, if the install script required Perl, you'd put it
in as a 'requires'. The problem I can forsee with this is if you have a
non-DJGPP package version of Perl, e.g. ActivePerl for Win32 (*), in which
case the dependency will fail. Maybe it would be better just to see if
'perl' is anywhere in the path. Perhaps a configuration file could be used
to override the locations of binaries like Perl.

(*) See http://www.activestate.com

Is there any consensus on storing configuration files in $DJDIR/etc? In my
experience with DJGPP so far the configuration files have either been in
$HOME or some other directory specified by environment variable.

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