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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:20:07 +0100
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Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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Bernard P. Murray, PhD wrote:
> 
> In article <6y0O2.2463$MB3 DOT 4117 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com>, "Johan Venter"
> <jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, the installation needs work. It need not be constricting. A program
> > that checks the current directory for DJGPP packages (how about a slightly
> > modified zip or tar format that it can use to identify them with?). Once it
> > has found all the packages, maybe show the user a list of the packages
> > (excluding the base ones) that can be installed. After this, install them.
> > Maybe have a specific install file contained in each package, kind of like a
> > makefile, that would allow the install program to decide on what (if any)
> > extra settings/environment variables that need to be setup to get the
> > package working????
> > I don't know....I'm rambling.....just a thought.
> > Johan Venter (aka sphinX)
> 
> Sounds like you'd like something like Redhat's RPM.
> I wonder if that's possible? (I know that RPM is
> Open Source).  The bad news is that all the DJGPP
> files would have to be packaged appropriately.
> The good news is that the dependencies would be
> taken care of and so the frequent problems with
> C++, RHIDE, Allegro etc. installations shouldn't occur
> any more.  Hmmmmm...
>      Bernard
> --
> Bernard P. Murray, PhD
> Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA

I would vote for dpkg if anything.  It is more efficent, and has three
layers of
dependancys.  For those who are worried about the potential size
increase,
.deb files have three sections, two are compressed using .tar.gz and
the
other is 4 bytes.

			Peter Allen