Excellent.

"Daily" builds was just an example and I agree, daily builds would be
overkill.  

The angle I was coming from is when "core changes" start to be made.  How
will this affect the 100 packages when core, resource, and drivers are
re-tooled?  DOS is heavily classic, solid... but some of the changes will
affect the core.  I should have been more specific in unit testing and
planning as various drivers, kernel, and kernel-deps change.

Ah, Zip files -- the beauty of DOS.  I love Linux, but sometimes I just
don't feel like writing code or compiling things :)

Thanks for the reply and will research/download the wifi drivers as soon as
possible.

--jesse/jkbs

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Auer [mailto:e.a...@jpberlin.de] 
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 7:17 AM
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Hello!


Hi Jesse,

Centralized documentation makes sense, but why would you put 100 packages in
a centralized source code repository if 95 of them have not a single source
code change in a whole year?

And why do nightly builds of all 100 then? DOS heavily relies on classic
software that simply is okay as it is and that no longer changes :-)

As mentioned in the thread, there already is a considerable number of text
and graphical web browsers. It probably is better to improve one of those
instead of writing yet another browser.

I agree that it is good to have a wishlist for shareware software that we
would like to become free open source. Maybe the list could be done in wiki
style?

In general, if the hardware common for virtual machines is among the
hardware for which there are drivers, there is no need to have separate
development for virtualization and installation.

We do already have a few VM-specific tools which are available :-) And there
could be a download of a pre-installed VM, in case installation from ISO
takes too much effort ;-)

IPv6 is widely available already but is rarely required so I agree that DOS
is not in a hurry.

Regarding GPT, that is something that only needs some reasonably small
amount of kernel code to support in passive scenarios. Having FDISK with GPT
would be way more code, I guess. Most other tools never look at a partition
table, so for them, this is not relevant.

FileMaven basically does the LapLink thing, but it is closed source. It
would be nice to have something open. On computers with network (LAN), it is
better to use existing FTP, SCP, SMB or HTTP tools to copy files around. And
there is a tool to copy files between VM and hypervisor.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there already are quite a few network
drivers for DOS, but almost none for wireless network. Note that even if you
do support the card, security protocols would still need a (often very
complex) driver as well. Actually I agree with Mateusz:

Better use a cheap portable and versatile access point with LAN between AP
and DOS, so all the wireless complexity can be done by a small AP.

There already is a FreeDOS repository of pre- packaged pre-compiled software
that can be installed, both from file and over the network.

Mateusz would be happy if you can help him to update and extend the
contents.

That repository also contains pre-packaged ZIPs with package sources.
Remember that 95 out of
100 DOS tools do NOT get updated, so the sources are static and it works
just fine to offer a ZIP with them for download.

Cheers, Eric



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