perhaps if this could be embeded in a web page... an applet? that would
be cool.
equally interesting would be to do a ping of the mirrors and
download from the closest first.
and unless you plan to compile to all archs maybe a shell script
would be better? if it based all of it's decisions on files in a
standard location on the ftp server then it could be updated auto-
magically.
At 11:32 11/18/99 -0800, Dustin Lang wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Despite the pretty decent web documentation, this list seems to be
>inundated with question of the form "I'm running <dist> <ver> and I'm
>getting <known problem>", or "I have <dist> <ver>. What file do I
>need to download?". I was thinking that it should be possible to write a
>little piece of C code that would check the person's distribution and libc
>library versions, and suggest the appropriate distribution file to
>download. At that point it could also print out a list of the known
>issues with that particular dist/version, and suggest any other setup
>steps that might be required (ie, add /usr/local/java/bin to your PATH,
>and so on). Such an app might make the install process a little less
>mystifying for newbies, and thereby reduce the number of silly questions
>asked on this list. Furthermore, I was thinking that I don't have much to
>do this weekend and that my C skills are getting crufty. Do people think
>this app would be useful? Any pointers/suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>dstn.
>
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