> No way... It would mean rewritting CATS/Kitten/Foxcubs for any existing 
> application, for a really not so great profit...
> NLS files aren't that big anyway (few KiB...), and it's a great functionality 
> to be able to switch from one language to another just by typing SET LANG=xx. 
> :-)

Actually IIRC kitten searches more than just %NLSPATH%\name.lang...
yes... from the source... %NLSPATH%\%LANG%\cat, then
%NLSPATH%\cat.%LANG%.  So cats and kitten are probably good, dunno
about foxcubs.
>
> Best regards,
> Mateusz Viste
>
>
>> 2009/4/9 Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>:
>> >
>> > Hi Jim :-))
>> >
>> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> >>> Hi people!
>> >>>
>> >>> So far, we have always used packaging sources and binaries differently 
>> >>> (that is, in separate packages, like memx.zip and mems.zip). I am trying 
>> >>> to put some effort these days into syncing some packages to make them 
>> >>> ready for v1.1, and I have to tell that handling sources and binaries in 
>> >>> different ways is a big pain.
>> >>> Besides that, the "source" package doesn't contain its own LSM file, 
>> >>> which makes its hard (or at least unreliable) to keep track of what 
>> >>> source is installed in what version.
>> >>>
>> >>> Therefore, I am proposing to drop the "sources / binaries" way of 
>> >>> thinking, and stay with one package per program. For example, a 
>> >>> "mem.zip" package would contain both sources and binaries. It would 
>> >>> allow me to work much faster on packaging, and hopefully could lead to a 
>> >>> v1.1 sooner.
>> >>>
>> >>> Some reasons to do that (quotes from Eric):
>> >>> - it is easy to delete /source/mem/* to keep only binaries,
>> >>> - it is not really allowed with GNU GPL License to publish binaries 
>> >>> without sources anyway,
>> >>> - it can be hard for people to find exactly the right version of the 
>> >>> sources manually later, so it is best to include them,
>> >>> - it makes life easier for installing and you can always drop the 
>> >>> sources after installing.
>> >>>
>> >>> Please tell me what are your opinions in that matter.
>> >
>> > Jim Hall wrote:
>> >> These days, hard drives have lots of capacity. While including the
>> >> sources would add to the size, we're talking on the order of MB, not
>> >> GB.
>> >>
>> >> Including the source and binaries together certainly provides that
>> >> every program in the "FreeDOS 1.1" distro also includes the source
>> >> code.
>> >>
>> >> I am a big fan of this.
>> >
>> > Thanks :-) I think it will make packaging easier... On the other
>> > hand, I would suggest two things: A binary-only install mode in
>> > FDPKG / FDUPDATE / installer which simply skips the source/NAME
>> > dir while unzipping (or deletes it afterwards) and a binary-only
>> > ISO for people with slow internet, as generated by dropping the
>> > source directories inside the package zip files.  In short:  Let
>> > us COLLECT all packages as FULL packages (binary AND source) for
>> > most purposes and use AUTOMATED ways to "shrink full into binary"
>> > for people with small disk or small internet :-).
>> >
>> >> Can you put this in the FreeDOS Wiki, so people don't have to revisit
>> >> this topic again in a year after we've forgotten? :-)
>> >
>> > Sounds useful - if anybody needs a wiki login, let me know ;-)
>> >
>> > Eric
> --
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