Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:04 PM tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > > Please shed some light on the well known reasons. > see Bart's 29 dez 2019 mail in freedos-devel
Sorry, I'm preoccupied, so I haven't been doing as much contributing to FreeDOS as I'd like. So I haven't tested the latest pre-release (though I'm a good candidate to try it, it's very useful to me, at least non-professionally). > in https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/svn/HEAD/tree/kernel/ there are > no recent changes. could the 'leader' please specify where official > sources are, who is official maintainer, aso. AFAIK, the maintainer is Jeremy Davis, and he last updated it on his Github 13 days ago: * https://github.com/PerditionC/fdkernel But I don't know his plans, don't have frequent contact with him, and only vaguely remember an email from a year ago from Juan Manuel Guerrero (DJGPP dev) about improvements in trunk (that I never investigated). That would be worth checking, but I haven't had the time nor energy. > > Is kernel development officially dead? How about freecom? > not officially. just as a matter of fact. It can always be restarted if anyone is interested in doing the work, of course. For most people, either it's good enough, too complicated to fix, or not important enough. (Or maybe "real life" worries take precedence.) Let's not sweat it too much. It's not the end of the world. > writing and running a couple of .BAT files would be cool. To do what or test what? I've written dozens of .BATs over the years of varying quality. I'm not holding back any amazing scripts. Most of my stuff is public, but it's a bit disorganized. MetaDOS had a bunch (albeit spaghetti code) that was partially used as test, IIRC. But I haven't had time to go back to that to try to kick the tires some more. I'm definitely in favor of improving FreeCOM and making sure it works on "Free" compilers. But I've also never rebuilt it (correctly), and it's a scary behemoth. Then again, I've had a bit more experience since then, so maybe I should try again. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
