Message-Id: <200104242228.SAA04306@delorie.com> Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:05:14 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: DJGPP announcements CC: DJGPP workers , Zippo Workers Subject: ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. It gives me pleasure to announce zippo 0.1.3. But what is zippo? zippo is a package manager for DJGPP, similar in style to rpm, the package manager 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; or: zippo --verbose --upgrade share/zippo/db-avail/bnu210b.dsm to upgrade to binutils 2.10 from, say, binutils 2.9.5.1 beta. 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 should appear sometime in the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET and its mirrors. When it does appear, you should be able to download it using these URLs: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo013b.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo013s.zip These are the binary and source distributions respectively. If you just wish to use zippo, download the binary distribution. Otherwise download the source distribution. In the meantime zippo is available from the zippo page, using the URL below. You may want to read the zippo & DSM documentation available from this page. http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/ If you have any comments, problems, etc., please mail me. Bye, -- Richard Dawe http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ "The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe." --- Gottfried W. Leibniz