[Announce] Dependable - A dependency solver

From: Dependable (genitechie_at_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: 16 Sep 2003 09:32:36 -0700

This is the announcement of a release of the 'dependable' dependency
solver.

Dependable is a minimal-dependency perl script which finds and
installs the libraries necessary to install a particular piece of
software. It can be called by various configure/install scripts and
retrieve libraries from mounted directories, HTTP servers or FTP
servers.

The package distributor finds and lists the libraries required for
his/her package along with relevant SHA1 or MD5 hashes. A
dependable.running file with this information is distributed along
with the dependable.pl executable.

When a configuration script finds that a required library is not
available, it calls "dependable.pl [library-name]", which will fetch,
compile and install the relevant library.

Dependable does not run suid.

Dependable can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dependable
Dependable's author can be reached at genitechie@users.sourceforge.net
Version 0.1 has just been released.

Relevant hashes are as follows:

c76ce7efe78c04927bba102c83f70285 dependable.pl
f575209b217537eea688a69ae9609f1a2d6290cf dependable.pl
b9fb237281410d16c06ee0a60f502b5d dependable-0.1.tar.gz
baf2fe370a46222370b07a5ee1325d0acda1017b dependable-0.1.tar.gz

Thanks!

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