Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/04/11/14:45:30
Hello.
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:
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> > I imagine that the DSM will be stored on the DJGPP archive somewhere -
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> This implies that an on-line net access is imperative for this feature
> to work. I'm afraid it might limit the users to a great degree (DOS
> machines usually don't have net access, and even Windows users only
> dial up sometimes or never).
I originally intended the group DSMs to be a quick way of installing a
whole bunch of packages when the packages had already been downloaded,
e.g. when distributed on a CD of the DJGPP archive. The networking
features of zippo probably won't be coded for a long-time yet, so we
certainly can't rely on the auto-download of packages, even with Internet
connectivity.
The question is then: what is the purpose of the group DSM? It is more a
convenience than anything else. Perhaps it would be best to link it in
with a zip-picker, so that the user would get all the required packages
for the group?
BTW since I have only a paltry dial-up link to the Internet, I'm pretty
aware of the need not to rely on constant & fast Internet connectivity. ;)
> I wonder if the problems that the group feature was designed to solve
> have a different solution, that doesn't rely on additional files.
> Perhaps we should discuss those problems on djgpp-workers.
Yes, a discussion would be welcome!
> > I suspect a solution to this problem may be to create a ZIP file
> > containing ZIP files for all the packages in the group.
>
> That would make really large zip files which nobody will want.
Apart from newbies, perhaps, who want things to be very simple? I agree
that I might be reluctant to download a 20MB file just to get a C
development environment for DOS.
Bye,
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Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/
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