Hi, On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:52 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: >> >>>> devel\fpc >>> >>> 3.0.0 was released recently, but there is no "package" for it yet. >> >> Same goes for DJGPP. And FreeBASIC. And surely many more packages. This >> is one of the issues that I pointed to in my latest "call for >> volunteers" on the user list. But since call remained completely >> unanswered, I assume nobody cares. So why bother? > > I hear you there. I get almost no feedback on what packages need to be > in BASE. Or even, what would like to be seen in ALL. Very disappointing. > > I hope that most of them are at least the latest “Stable” release.
Barring any blatant errors or things that Jim Hall missed, it's not worth worrying about. He didn't want to change anything until well after 1.2, so that's probably what will happen. (The biggest problem isn't just lack of volunteers, it's that even the rare stuff we do still get is highly unmaintained, almost abandonware. So we have to round off the rough edges ourselves, which is tedious.) I do still worry about some of the licensing (and the onus of rebuilding), but it's mostly a lost cause at this late stage in the game. Theoretical problems just aren't urgent enough, I suppose, to delay real work. We'll have to worry about other real problems when they actually appear. As for "stable" releases, I'm afraid there are very few things that I could reasonably call "stable". Sure, some of it works, but that doesn't mean it's bug-free or well-maintained. Paradoxically, we're lucky to have anything work anymore, despite our best efforts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
