Hi Jerome,
indeed there are many possibilities for automated and manual package selection :-) > The package survey is ongoing and self-adjusting. Do you suggest that people cast multiple votes, or generally cast fresh votes because context changed? > However, I do need to add support for the Bonus CD... How about something like "Packages need fewer votes to be included in LITE when they are SMALL", to make lite chosen by a mix of size and votes instead of needing a separate voting category for it? > the overall consensus is BASE should not have things > removed and should always continue to replicate MSDOS > functionality. Even utilities that have little use > nowadays should remain. That is the idea of BASE, yes. It kind of preserves the MS DOS tradition by stating the wish to have what MS DOS had, as a minimum goal. So yes, there is not so much point in voting things in or out of base ;-) As said, I suggest to generate a list of small and popular things from all categories to add to LITE, instead of limiting it to the stinted BASE category. I guess the SECTION "base" in https://fd.lod.bz/survey/ means "base, clones of stuff included with ms dos 6", while the COLUMN "base" should be interpreted as "what should already be included in the lite distro" :-) The sections basically correspond to the groups known from https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/index.html Suggestion for the 1.3 report: Put a link-list similar to the 1.2 index list near the top of the report.html which simply scrolls to the corresponding 1.3 report section :-) https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc4/report.html Survey columns are: base, full, extra, online (four degrees of importance), live and floppy. I think live refers to "things beyond base which are pre-installed in the live CD/USB" while floppy refers to "things beyond base which are available in the floppy distro". I guess one could interpret that as SIX degrees of importance in total: 1. Base SECTION is always included in all editions, because we want to offer at least as much as MS DOS. Even for packages which are no longer exciting 2021. 2. Floppy has a bit more than base, to be more useful 3. Base COLUMN is included in the LITE distro, a few 10 MB in total (Live CD/USB should also include those) 4. Full column is included in the FULL distro CD/USB 5. Extra is moved to an extra CD, because otherwise the FULL distro would not fit on a single CD at all. 6. Online is not available on any CD, only online and only on basis of individual per-package downloads. The pre-packaged ZIP/ISO/IMG should match levels 2 to 5: Level 1 is too minimalistic and 6 would be too large. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
