Jim Hall wrote:
> > It looks like we have very old copies of FDNPKG in the FreeDOS Files
> > Archive at Ibiblio. Should we be mirroring the new versions too? If
> > so, can you also share a link to a source zip file in your *next*
> > announcement? I can start mirroring from that version.
> > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/fdnpkg/

victoria crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> FDNPKG is the original project and is not in development anymore as it
> is 32 bit and i made FDNPKG16 a 16 bit port of it's latest code.
>
> i got the FreeDOS package with source (of the program not the libraries
> they are found on the repository) available on
> http://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/net/fdnpkg16.zip
>

That tells me we don't have FDNPKG16 mirrored at ibiblio, so I should
do that. :-) I'll create a new directory for it, probably under the
'fdnpkg' directory. See also my note below:


> Jim i have a question...
>
> should i merge the 2 projects? i made FDNPKG16 distinct as it is my
> version of it. To let people know it is a different version of it.
>
> the latest version of FDNPKG is found on source forge
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/fdnpkg/files/latest/download
>
> this is where i started on FDNPKG16

I think my question back to you is: is FDNPKG16 meant as a full
drop-in replacement of FDNPKG? If it has all the features of FDNPKG,
same command line and everything (and I think that's correct) then I
think the FDNPKG program is just a previous version. And that means I
should mirror your FDNPKG16 under files/util/system/fdnpkg

Since the old versions are numbered 0.99.xx and you seem to have
picked up the version numbers from there (latest is 0.99.8253b) then I
think that makes it easier for me to organize the
files/util/system/fdnpkg directory on ibiblio.

>
> also there is a 0.99.8253b version out rn
>
> i did some cleaning to code and comments

I assume "rn" means "right now" instead of something else?

I missed the "b" version announcement. Is there a homepage for
FDNPKG16 somewhere that I could link to instead of a zip file? Even a
simple page that shows the latest version and a link to download the
zip would be enough for me. Then when you announce new versions, you
can point to that page, and I can use it in the announcement -- then
people will always find the latest version, even if there's a newer
version since the latest news item.


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