On 6/2/2025 17:10, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
> It's a pretty good C compiler, and once upon a time I remember that we
> did include some Micro-C things in FreeDOS, and maybe even Micro-C
> itself (this would have been a while back, I don't remember the
> details very clearly anymore).
> 
> But in more recent distributions, we've had to balance what we include
> on the CDs. We can't open up the floodgates to include every niche
> compiler just because one person thinks it's cool. And compilers are
> kind of big anyway, you can't include very many before the CD gets
> full. We already include OpenWatcom C, ia-16 GCC, and BCC. Plus FPB
> (Pascal) and FBC and BWBasic (BASIC) plus other compilers, assemblers
> (NASM, JWASM, FASM, ..) and development tools & libraries.
> 
> So that's a long answer to say: probably not going to include Micro-C
> anytime soon.

Not even in the new DVD release?  How about the upcoming network-based
package manager?

(Just kidding.)


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