Hi Tom, > On Mar 1, 2025, at 1:31 PM, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > on the search for the sources of the most recent MOVE, I encounter a problem: > > > > google places > https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/sdcboot/tree/master/freedos/source > very high in my search results, where somebody uploaded all of freedos > sources to GITHUB 12 years ago, > and never uploaded anything again. Can't be the official FreeDOS github > location. > > the logical address https://github.com/freedos is basically empty. Can't be > the official FreeDOS github location. > > the not so logical address https://github.com/FDOS holds kernel sources, but > no MOVE.C > > https://freedos.org/ has no obvious pointer to MOVE.C (or any other sources. > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/ > where other sources seem to be located points to TIMEOUT > > https://freedos.org/about/devel/ has a lot of pointers, but no pointer to > source code. > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/move/ > is from 2006-08-31 13:53. Is that the most recent move?
For the binaries, yes. > more by accident, I stubled over > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/base/ > with > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/base/move.zip > from 2025-01-01 04:29. This might very well be the latest MOVE, but this > should definitively be easier to locate. > Like having a link from freedos.org to to > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4 That is the “Package” version of MOVE in the update repository for the eventual release of FreeDOS 1.4. It was created by the RBE. The datestamp is from when it was uploaded to the server. While the binary and sources have not been updated in a long time, there have been several updates to NLS and metadata for the package. It is easier to determine a package version by browsing that repository using the HTML pages created by the repository management utilities. Like: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/pkg-html/move.html > > Next question: assuming I get the "can't MOVE files above 2GB" bug, where do > I post the necessary changes? > Who is entitled to mark bugs as "fixed"? There is a link to the development VCS on that HTML page. This information is stored in the APPINFO/*.LSM metadata file in packages. We try to keep it up to date when things change. Also, the FreeDOS GitLab Archive (and package staging repositories) has the developer links as well. https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS > > P.S.:to my surprise, there is no > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/mkeyb because > MKEYB is to be found under > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb. > How is someone supposed to find this? > why does https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ still > exist when newer sources > seem to exist at > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4 ? They have different purposes. The ../files/dos (and some other paths) are managed by Jim and contain mirrored copies of the original zip downloads. The ../files/repositories/* are managed by me (mostly through automated utilities). The files there are versions which have nearly always been modified for compatibility with the package managers. This often requires combining binary and source downloads. Sometimes compiling. Often reorganizing the location of files. Addition of metadata. And several other things. ../files/repositories/* is also where command line tools like FDNPKG.EXE will fetch downloads and/or updates under FreeDOS. On the plus side, this permits the Download and Update Repositories to easily provide browsable HTML pages for multiple versions of packages. For example: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/jemm.html > > Tom > > Side note: For projects that are no longer maintained elsewhere, they get updated at the FreeDOS Archive directly. https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS Jerome > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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