Re: 'GNU tools' versions and upgrades

[David T-G]

Paul, et al --

...and then Paul Jarc said...
% 
% David T-G <davidtg@justpickone.org> wrote:
% > Has someone already invented the wheel of maintaining software
% > development tools so that the current version (eg gcc/egcs) is
...
% 
% This can be done by installing each version of each package with its

Yeah, I had figured that ...


% own directory prefix.  I think GNU stow does that.  There's also the

... but, oooh, I hadn't noticed stow when grepping through the software
directory.  I'll check it out.


% slashpackage project: <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html>

Oh, cool.  And it comes from Dan; how nice :-)


% I've installed several existing packages in slashpackage style:
% <URL:http://multivac.cwru.edu./sptools/>

Thanks; I'll check it out for examples.


% 
% 
% paul


Thanks a bunch!

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