>From: Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Freedos-devel] re: Last "Hello"! >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:47:10 +0100 (MET) > .. >I do not know why none of them made it into the FreeDOS distro. I think >the Basic interpreter written in Pascal and the text editors and com <-> exe >are interesting, and for those who do have a good Basic interpreter (do not >know how good the ones by Sandul are) the pile of other Basic things is worth >looking at. Nothing for the BASE category but things for the EDITOR and TOOLS >and COMPILERS category. Maybe Sandul only checked beta9rc4 which only contains >BASE packages. ..
The reason that none are include is really simple: my lack of time (you may have noticed I kinda disapeared for a while), so when I finally did have the time, I could no longer get to his site to download them. I did briefly look through them, and as Eric mentioned, none really belong in BASE, so it simply is not at the top of my priorities. Even now you will notice that editors (which I really don't want to expand, how many text editors do we really need?), utils (where most of them probably would go), etc. have not been updated in an extremely long time. Right now Bernd is doing a great job with the BASE set and I have other items I would rather do (actual coding instead of downloading and rezipping). If someone else happened to download the items and wants to send me (via email in a zip preferrably) the ones they feel are useful to the general FreeDOS community then I will try to make time to update the UTIL* set next weekend. *I mean a full update, not just add these programs. As for his attitude, I think it is impolite, and tends to make one not wish to include his work; but I prefer technical not political stuff, so if they are worth including (and I don't recall any particular requests besides from him to include them), then they will be added. Also to anyone wanting anything added to FreeDOS: - one, the distribution roughly follows the LSM list as maintained by Jim. Some differences occur (and more so in the future) based on the maturity of the program [yeah yeah, not so working programs will be relegated to source only] or license reasons (programs for personal use only, shareware, without source, etc. tend to be ommitted). - second and most importantly, provide prebuilt packages, so all that has to be done is download and edit the the list of packages to include it. Jim just recently provided blank example packages and if you look (I forget where) the package layout is well documented. - FreeDOS is free, so if the official distribution does not suite you, make your own! or better yet help! If people volunteered we could have each set with its own maintainer keeping them updated, or some sort of cooperative assistance (such as Bernd and I sorta do -- well, he does all the work now :-) Anyway, back to actual programming and watching T.V. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
