Any usual commercial and shareware apps for msdos with an install create its own dir. To have 100+ folders at apps is not good. why not:
/office /dev /audio /video /games/adventure /games/arcade /games/puzzle 2009/4/5, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net>: > On Sunday 05 April 2009 19:15, Marco Antonio Achury Palma wrote: >> I agree is nice to have separated paths for base system and apps. This >> is the good old way to make things. The most of the dos apps are self >> contained without dependencies. One problem I remember is to have >> path to all the apps, sometimes become bigger than the available >> environment variable space. >> A new different solution may be create a bat file for each app, or a >> text database with descriptive name and path to any executable. this >> is useful to generate automated launch menu. > > Well, the "\BIN" directory is only for system stuff. Any third-party things > won't be there anyway. > The real question is "is there any advantage to put some really basic system > files into \BIN and more advanced one in \SBIN". > > I was thinking about making a difference between "package giving MSDOS > functionality" and "other system enhacements", but as Jim said - it doesn't > seem to be a quite fortunate choice, as it will most probably lead to a > bigger mess than we have currently... > > The problem which is (at least to me) important know, is to decide how will > we package 3rd package application for a FD v1.1 installation. The "old" way > would be to put them into \programs and \games subdirectories of the FreeDOS > install (that's how we done it in v1.0), but it doesn't sound right to me... > > Regards, > Mateusz Viste > > >> 2009/4/5, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net>: >> > On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:11, Jim Hall wrote: >> >> I think Mateusz is suggesting separating the programs from the "base" >> >> list (in ...\BIN) from those that are in "devel" or "util" (in >> >> ...\SBIN). In this case, FORMAT would show up in ...\BIN. >> > >> > Yes, it was indeed my idea... >> > >> >> Imagine all the (new?) packages that should really be in "util" that >> >> might be put in ...\BIN format because the developer/contributor wants >> >> them to be in "base" (even though the program might not replicate any >> >> original functionality of MSDOS.) >> > >> > I guess you're right here, Jim ;-) >> > We should look at FreeDOS as an independant system, not just a MSDOS >> > replacement... >> > >> >> It's better to keep with the original spec on this, use the ...\BIN >> >> for all binaries. >> > >> > Okay, let's not change a wining team then :) >> > >> > How about installing 3rd party applications? I searched through FreeDOS >> > technotes, but couldn't find anything related to packages installation >> > paths... >> > FreeDOS v1.0 was installing all third-party applications in the FreeDOS >> > directory, which is IMHO a very bad thing. Many people wants to keep >> > theirs >> > applications in a separate path, for eg. on a different hard drive. >> > Having a >> > environement variable pointing to "the place where all my games/programs >> > have to go" would definitely resolve this issue. That's something the >> > FreeDOS installer should ask for at the installation (Where do you want >> > to >> > put FreeDOS files? Where do you want to put any non-freedos >> > applications?). >> > >> > However, it's not a trivial thing to do, as we would need a way to tell >> > "this is a FreeDOS package, while this one is 3rd party one". Nothing >> > like >> > that is ready today. Obviously, it would require some additional >> > developpement on FDPKG, too... >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Mateusz Viste >> > -- >> > You'll find my public OpenPGP key at >> > http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key >> > >> >> >> -- > > > > -- > You'll find my public OpenPGP key at > http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key > -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Fax: +58-(212)-2410828 Skype: marcoachury www.geocities.com/marcoachury ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
