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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:02:29 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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        Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I was under the impression that the available distribution lags behind
> > the features I use in the DSM files (in particular, I think you told
> > me that built-ins are not yet supported except in your development
> > sources).
> 
> Yes, I recall that. Rich, how it is?

Builtins are not supported yet, but zippo/dsmcheck can parse them. So it
is valid to have them in a DSM (as specified by 0.4.2 of the spec), but
zippo cannot yet do anything with them.

> > As things are now, I'm not even sure the effort I invest in creating
> > the DSM files is justified: I suspect that most of the people don't
> > use zippo to install packages.
> 
> Currently it is OK: zippo is still alpha, DJGPP docs (especially
> readme.1st and FAQ) do not refer to it. What must be done now is
> propagating DSMs through the packages.

Thinking about this today, I think we should aim for the following: get
zippo to handle install/uninstall well. Then we can work on the upgrade
options, etc. Once install/uninstall works well, we can release for
general use.

I've been putting DSMs in the packages that I've producing. If nothing
else, having a DSM makes it easier to test binary distributions in a DJGPP
installation.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
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