From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
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Subject: Re: Weekly Mini-FAQ post for DJGPP
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:40:29 -0300
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Jason Green wrote:
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> > > Request: list these as the actual zip filenames, possibly as a
> > > separate listing. That way it can be quickly compared to the
> > > package filenames locally available.  Example:
> > >
> > >   binutils-2.11.2 (bnu2112b.zip), bison-1.28 (bsn129b.zip), ....
> >
> > You should be able to use the files in the manifest directory to
> > compare the names, since the *.ver files state the versions in full.
> >
> > Not that I object to adding the zip file names, but if we are going to
> > do that, we should probably change the format as well:
> >
> >    binutils-2.11.2           bnu2112b.zip, bnu2112s.zip
> >    bison-1.29              bsn129b.zip,  bsn129s.zip
> 
> Timestamp and filesize should probably be listed too, to catch the cases
> when a package is re-released under the same name.
> 
> How about also prefixing each line with an asterix if the package is less
> than a month old?

Whereas I second these nice ideas, I believe it is time to consider they
should be implemented by use of some sort of script to automate this
otherwise, we're putting too much burden in DJ!

Cesar