Hi, On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Kenway, Owain <o.ken...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > > From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> > Sent: 17 October 2017 16:44 > >> I've lately wondered what should come after FreeDOS 1.2. I think it's >> time to talk about "FreeDOS 2.0." > >> (4) Is there anything missing in FreeDOS 1.2 that should be included >> in "FreeDOS 2.0"? > > Personally I'd like (note like, not need!) more of the development tools from > Open Watcom and DJGPP > to be available as packages. Currently these are (reasonably, due to > popularity!) skewed towards C/C++ > but both provide compilers for other languages (Fortran, Ada etc.) which we > don't have packages for. > DJGPP also has an Emacs build which might interest some people.
Too quickly outdated, too bloated (even moreso with full sources!), too few users. Just grab them from DJGPP FTP mirror. It's not that hard. I know FreeDOS has some old GCC "packages" (e.g. 4.7.1 for 2.03p2), but I don't personally see the point. And nobody ever updated them to 2.05 either (which is almost two years old by now). > Similarly there are a couple of nice DOS Open Source languages we could add - > UCBLogo and Gambit > Scheme (I've not found a good Open Source Common LISP for DOS but I am > looking!). Both work well > on FreeDOS 1.2, it'd just be nice to have packages for them! All such things that I've found in years past were quite outdated and unmaintained. Of course the license would also have to be FOSS/OSI friendly. For whatever reason, most developers gave up on DJGPP (probably because of buggy NTVDM and/or AMD64 before VT-X). So even stuff that used to work and be supported is almost impossible to find. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
