Hi, > On Dec 21, 2024, at 9:13 AM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > is there any interest in getting builds of the Kernel and FreeCOM master > branches into the next interim release? > > I could build them and upload them into the FreeDOS Gitlab Archive unstable > branch. But as there are no official releases of these components yet, I > think this should be discussed first... > > My personal opinion is that it takes way too long for the improvements in > these components to land in the interim releases. > > Bernd
Since Interim Build T2501 will be FreeDOS 1.4-RC1, it will be built from the master/main branch. Excluding FDI and FDI-x86, those will get a temporary “candidate" branch that will be used. Therefore, during the RC phase for 1.4, changes pushed to an “unstable” branch will not effect the upcoming interim builds until after FreeDOS 1.4-Final is released and we start providing normal interim builds again. It is possible to provide both an RC and separate Interim Test Build simultaneously. But, I honestly don’t see much point in providing two different builds for the short time we will be providing the RC builds. At this point, I don’t think there will be any Kernel or FreeCOM update in the next OS release. Those would require a lot of testing and delay 1.4 for a long while. I think it is more important to get some of those critical bug fixes out to the public. Things like the FDISK bug that would rewrite partition tables it does not understand just from launching the program, really need released as soon as possible. Sure, a user could download those directly. But, they are far more likely to just use the LiveCD. So, unless the community wants both an RC and Interim build, I think that updating FreeCOM and the Kernel unstable branches can wait until after FreeDOS 1.4-Final is released. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
