Bart Oldeman schreef:
To be fair I found Eric's email rather demanding. In general if you
want things to happen in the NEAR future you either have to do it
yourself or pay big bucks, not just pizza money. Certainly when the
kernel doesn't have a real maintainer (just an interim one who does
what he can when he has time).
reason was for better bug reporting. People often only report the
FreeDOS version, or something out of VER.
Hardly ever VER /R, let alone the production date of a (CVS) kernel
which can only be viewed at boottime.
Personally I find it rather questionable that an unstable CVS snapshot
is used for the official FreeDOS distribution, but that's just me, I
would just stick with the latest official kernel version, with perhaps
a few custom patches for important bug fixes, unless the (interim)
maintainer has blessed the CVS as fit for general (non-developer) use.
Or perhaps I'm missing something obvious, I only take a half eye on
FreeDOS these days.
Features. Jeremy is still working on implementing features in unstable
tree as a voluntary interim maintainer (which means there's no guarantee
that bugreports will be handled whatsoever), and on top of that he's
also bigfixing FreeCOM, which has several severe problems.
Luckily Erwin Veermans and Blair Campbell are also very capable of
working with these components.
None of this has been added/backported to 2035 official release or 2035A
official release and then released under a brand new version number.
The unstable kernel adds a lot of features not found in 2035/2035A:
*NLS stuff (NLSfunc, country, display, chcp, mode)
*silently working with SHSUFDRV (i-node complaints)
*and a lot more things I currently can't remember, busy with study and
playing World of Warcraft frequently.
Bart
Bernd
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