Hallo Herr Jim Hall via Freedos-devel, am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 19:19 schrieben Sie:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:49 AM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> Hallo Herr Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel, >> >> am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 16:34 schrieben Sie: >> >> >> > I think we should develop a source package format, that handle >> > dependencies, because sources handle >> > a lot of libraries, that make a lot dependencies. >> >> I would be interested to learn about all these dependencies. >> >> I'm fairly certain that not even a single 16-bit program is dependent >> on any 'dependency' (other than the right compiler installed). >> >> Additionally, I think that these depndencies are at least rare - >> if even existent - in 32-bit land. >> >> I'm also not aware of any programs (in FreeDOS context) depending on >> any libraries not supplied by the compilers. >> >> Please correct me if I'm wrong. > The only dependencies I can think of are things like Kitten > (translations) and Getopt. These are not provided by the compiler, but > are external libraries. They are not very big. both don't come as external libraries, to be installed separately. they come as part of the project itself (in varying versions). > I suppose there's also the use case where a BAT file might use V8 > Power Tools, which is a dependency if you want the BAT file to work. > These are not very common. > Games are probably the more common case where you have dependencies on > bigger things like Allegro. there is no "Allegro" package according to https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/listing.txt. so there can't be dependencies on Allegro. > The discussion that sparked this thread > was about DOjS including a bunch of libraries. But I think that's > appropriate for something like DOjS. This is perfectly fine for DOjs. However this package could and should (and probably does) include all stuff it depends on. > But it's also not typical for other DOS programs and DOS applications > we include. A lot of programs make assumptions about the compiler, and > the compiler provides the dependencies. For example: the conio.h > (console i/o) and graph.h (colors) features in OpenWatcom vs another C > compiler. right; DOS programs can depend on the compiler installed. but this is clearly manifested in the makefile or compile.bat or whatever. And if a program relies on TC conio.h specifics, this is not cleaned up by installing a different compiler. You need exactly the TC (or WCC) compiler. IMHO this closes the 'dependencies' threat. hopefully forever. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
