re: ANNOUNCE FDIinstall preview -> further ideas

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Eric Auer wrote:

> I have noticed that most of our ZIP do not follow any useful rules for
> directory structure, I suggest the following restructuring, which can
> be either applied to the ZIP files or become part of the installer.

well there are these guidelines:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/howto/en/distrib.txt

> \src\foo\foo.h
> \src\foo\foo.c
> \src\foo\makefile
> \src\foo\compile.txt

I thought the FreeDOS standard was "source", not "src"?

> Feel free to share your opinions about this everybody. At least I
> am prepared to structure my ZIP file contents a bit more nicely to
> ease the installation with FDINSTALL.

Just make sure you use the "-k" option for zipping (as documented
in the referenced file, ie. zip -9 -r -k)

I just download the new FreeCOM. Its zipfile has:

        0  10-16-02 15:19   freecom/strings/
     9212  04-11-01 20:09   freecom/strings/CRITSTRS.C
    36509  04-02-02 12:09   freecom/strings/DEFAULT.LNG
     4100  04-11-01 20:09   freecom/strings/DEFAULT.err
      142  07-10-00 18:32   freecom/strings/ENGLISH.LNG
      142  03-07-01 14:49   freecom/strings/ENGLISH.err
       26  03-07-01 14:49   freecom/strings/RESOURCE.H
      562  04-11-01 20:33   freecom/strings/depend.mk
    23068  04-11-01 20:09   freecom/strings/fixstrs.c

This is not good.

      -k     Attempt  to  convert the names and paths to conform
             to MSDOS, store only the MSDOS attribute (just  the
             user write attribute from UNIX), and mark the entry
             as made under MSDOS (even though it was  not);  for
             compatibility with PKUNZIP under MSDOS which cannot
             handle certain names such as those with two dots.

Bart