Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3B436B92.993C84BE@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 20:16:34 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP announcements CC: DJGPP workers , Zippo Workers Subject: ANNOUNCE: zippo 0.1.4 / DSM specification 0.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. It gives me pleasure to announce zippo 0.1.4. This release fixes many bugs in zippo 0.1.3. For a full list see: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/changes.txt Users of earlier versions of zippo should upgrade. 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 is available from the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET and its mirrors. You can download it from here: http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo014b.zip&name=zipo014b.zip http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/zipo014s.zip&name=zipo014s.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. Installation instructions are here: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/install.txt The zippo binary distribution comes with a program called dsmcheck, which can be used to check the syntax of DSMs. The DSM specification version 0.5.1 has also been released. It is available here: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/dsm-spec.txt You may wish to read the zippo home page, using the URL below. You may also 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/