On 11/7/2017 11:54 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:28:08 -0800, Ralf Quint wrote: >> And yes, I would like to see this included in FreeDOS, as it is the only >> C compiler that both produces 16 bit code and can even run on a >> minimalistic FreeDOS system with only 256KB of RAM and two floppy discs. > Sounds nice! And if the license allows it, it would certainly be a good > addition to FreeDOS (if 4 freedoms) and/or Svarog386 (if freeware-like). > Would you do a package of it? > > Mateusz
The license is GPL2/LGPL. and I am curious as to why now people think it's "nice" now while 10 years ago, when it was made Open Source, everybody seemed to be against it. I haven't really looked into any of that FreeDOS package stuff, as that is for me (personally) not "the DOS way". Bill had made ZIP files from each of the 5 floppy disks and another one with the source code for the compiler/linker/tools, and he also got the source code for the SEE editor and the 3rd party O88 peephole optimizer. Haven't looked into how the later one works in connection with the ANSI C version of the compiler, though I don't think that this would make much of a difference. I did not purchase that one "back in those days", as the compiler by itself produced pretty nice and small code for all I did with it back then (that was in the early 2.x version days). I was thinking to make one bigger ZIP file for the executables (including the library source code, which might need a bit of work) that would extract into a folder structure, it doesn't really need an "installation", and overall, I will try again to contact Bill to move the stuff to SourceForge or GitHub. Once that would be done, I could look into any "package"... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
