Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3A96A2B8.372C555D@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:49:44 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP announcements CC: DJGPP workers , Zippo Workers Subject: ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.3 alpha 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com 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 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ "The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe." --- Gottfried W. Leibniz