Hi Jim, > Ewwww! I'd rather not go back to "beta9 SP2" etc naming scheme...
Right. I have a related question: Tom gave me a copy of his 2035-Tom kernel sources, and I included a 2037-findfirst fix in the 2036 kernel. I might find some more useful fixes in 2035-Tom and 2037, and then I guess "2036b" would be a bad name, right? Even though it is only fixes, I still suggest to call the new version 2038. That leaves 2037 marked as a different kernel with many experimental updates. Would be cool if people would find the time to select the best patches from 2037 for inclusion in 2038. At the moment, 2037 differs so much from 2036 that it is very hard to tell which of the differences are improvements, which are only optimisations, and which even introduce new bugs. > indeed an incremental improvement with no major changes (i.e. updated > packages, etc) then "FreeDOS 1.1" would be acceptable... > Let's avoid "1.0.1" kind of naming unless it's a bug-fix release Agreed. Once we reach 1.9 we should just call the next version the 2.0 one :-). Please have a look at http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall (and consider linking that page from the start page and/or 1.0 download page). Among other things, it lists known issues with 1.0, and it would be cool to have a 1.1 version which fixes all those AND which has a "no network" install mode. At the moment, you have to know which packages need network during install. Some of those cause really big and slow downloads, and if you have no or slow network, you will want to postpone those. Plus you may prefer to download some files from within Windows or Linux rather than using DOS instead. I suggest that the fix comes in two versions: The fdbase(cd/ws) should be completely updated to 1.1 (having 1.0 somewhere for reference) and there should be a zip (or few zips) with updates for people who already have 1.0 or who use the fdfull(cd/ws). Of course such a zip would not improve the install process, it would only update an already installed system. Which is why there should be full ISOs of 1.1 fdbase as well. Comments on http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall are of course welcome :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
