Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 05:50:54 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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To: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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        Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [zippo-workers] Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Make 3.79.1
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Richard Dawe spoke the following immortal words,

> Hello.
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually although having a DSM in the zip file would help, if there
> > > isn't a DSM in a zip, I think zippo should use it's own pre written
> > > DSM's (it comes with several) and try to install it..
> > 
> > The default DSMs must be so general that they are useless.  We might
> > as well ask that zippo be able to install without any DSM anywhere in
> > sight.  All it takes is unzip the package and pray...
> 
> I think there's a bit of confusion here. I think Kalum is referring to the
> DSMs that are distributed with zippo. On the to-do list is a way of
> matching the ZIP file name to its parent package, when the ZIP file does
> not contain a DSM. That way a user could do e.g.:
> 
>     zippo -i sed302b.zip

Yes, this was what I was referring to..

<snip>

> 
> BTW I don't that distributing a lot of DSMs with zippo is the way to go.
> As I mentioned before, zippo should ship with a few necessary DSMs until
> all packages contain DSMs. Then we can remove the DSMs distributed with
> zippo, since they will no longer be needed.

Agreed, but as you said zippo should ship with a few necessary DSM's until
most of the packages contain DSM's...

Grendel

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