I wouldn't assuime any unwarranted wisdom here, but my impression is that some programs seem to be included because they are there and there is no alternative. As a font nerd of sorts, I noticed the gnuchcp package that Jim even made a video about. It is ridiculously trivial and not very well programmed. In fact it's just a handful of Turbo Pascal lines someone belched into a file. It can't even deal with any scanlines other than 16. which is pointless when you ship 8x14 and 8x18 fonts at the smae time, you just mess up your display.
I would think we either replaxce those packages with something more sophisticated (as I'm currently working on, shameless plug) or we take them out. I would hate if FreeDOS acquired a reputation of coming with a lot of junk. On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 00:05, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hallo Herr Jim Hall via Freedos-devel, > > am Sonntag, 16. Februar 2025 um 22:20 schrieben Sie: > > > I'm bringing back an item we talked about on the video call this morning. > > > Folks have discussed a few times on this email list about dropping the > > FDTUI program from the distribution. But FDTUI was always "just one > > item in a long list of other topics" in whatever thread it was brought > > up in, so FDTUI never really got much discussion. > > > FDTUI is only a file manager, but not a very good one. We have other > > file managers in FreeDOS (like Doszip). The program doesn't really do > > anything and is buggy. See below for details. > > > I think we need to drop FDTUI, and not include it in FreeDOS 1.4. > > +1 > > Which rises the question why it was ever included. > > IMO FreeDOS included programs should have both a minimum usefulness and code > quality, which FDTUI certainly doesn't. > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
