On December 22, 2019 8:21:59 PM PST, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 10:11 PM Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/22/2019 7:36 PM, David Griffith wrote:
>> >
>> > Why does the FreeDOS project use version 3 LSM rather than version
>4?
>> >
>> Because there isn't much of a practical difference between the two
>> "versions", beside v4 "expects" the data to be in ISO 8601 format, in
>> v3, it doesn't matter AFAIK...
>>
>
>
>Yep, and so we haven't needed to update the LSM format. It still meets
>our
>needs.
>
>Waaaaay back when I wrote the installer, I wanted a way to preserve
>package
>metadata. And I wanted it to be simple for people to write the
>metadata,
>and simple to parse. I looked around and found the LSM format from
>Linux
>fit what I was looking for, and that's how we came to use the LSM
>format.
>
>And we haven't needed to change it, or we would have done that.
I asked because I deleted the lsm file from my Frotz repo because it seemed
that the LSM was dead. I was using version 4. Now that I discovered that
FreeDOS uses it, I'll put it back. And it also seems that the LSM still seems
to be going on in some fashion. So I want to put back the .lsm file for 2.51
onward. But if there's a version hangup, that might cause problems.
--
David Griffith
d...@661.org
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