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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] gifsicle
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:44:55 -0800 (PST)

Pierre Abbat said:
> On Sunday 05 January 2003 01:30, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Call the spell 'gifsicle', and perhaps query the user (via PREPARE)
>> whether they wish to install LZW compression support, which requires a
>> license, and if they say 'y', then install gifsicle, otherwise
>> download and install ungifsicle. If this is too difficult, then just
>> have it install gifsicle and in the DETAILS' long description explain
>> about the licensing issue, then it is up to the user to be
>> license-compliant (either way, I don't believe this should be in
>> z-rejected, as this patent is nonsense anyways, so... ;))
>
> I can figure out how to query the user and install one or the other, but
> the md5sums of the two tarballs will be different. How do I handle
> that?

Using PREPARE will help you with that. The same way you may have VERSION
defined by the user's choice you may also define an MD5 based upon the
choice.

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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