Hi! >> Any usual commercial and shareware apps for msdos with an install >> create its own dir. To have 100+ folders at apps is not good.
We do not have many "apps": Everything in BASE can go into the same fdos/bin directory for example, and many of the UTIL things can be sorted into relatively few directories such as "driver" if you do not want to put most of UTIL into global directories as well... I would only use a separate directory for apps with more than 5 files that would otherwise go into bin (not docs, nls, sources...). >> /office >> /dev >> /audio >> /video >> /games/adventure >> /games/arcade >> /games/puzzle I myself had that style of sorting for my OTHER apps but if you look at FreeDOS you see we do not have so varied software: www.freedos.org/freedos/software/ base - all in one directory boot - just a few boot managers which could go into boot/ devel - mostly compilers and libraries, several could go into global lib/ and compile/ directories and a few big ones would have their own directory, eg watcom edit - dunno about mined but osplus, fed, tde and maybe blocek can share a place... setedit, emacs, vim are big gui - only contains OpenGEM which has a separate directory with several subdirectories :-) net - wattcp / ertos should probably go into devel, lsicq is useless with modern servers, arachne has a separate dir, many of the others are probably small enough to share one? sound - can easily share one directory, even mpxplay :-) util - basically everything here can either go into the main fdos bin (etc...) directory or maybe use one or two extra directories such as "drivers" and "tools" > I guess you're asking for too much, Marco ;-) I personally would not "over-sort" the distro. People can sort the things they download elsewhere as much as they want but I would initially keep most of the distro itself bundled into few directories, also to keep PATH short. > Having a global directory for apps will be already good enough. > Then, it would be easy to package programs and games into subdirectory > like "\games\fpp\doom\" instead of just "\doom\". But I think it is not > something we should take care of at the implementation level, rather a > packaging preference of the guy who would package applications for FreeDOS. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
