Op 14-10-2012 0:31, Rugxulo schreef: > There are some people who seriously wanted such a thing for FreeDOS, > e.g. some random dude on OS News when FD 1.1 was announced. So I guess > he'll finally be glad, heh.
From what I've noticed it's a big binary, likely due to including wattcp and perhaps also a decompressor. I've not experimented with it, got stuck reading the little amount of documentation that's present. I'm surprised Mike didn't bring up the suggestion of making it MTCP-compatible and thus perhaps also smaller. >> FDNPKG allows to install packages both from network repositories and >> from local *.zip packages. Installing from local *.zip implies the ability to run the program without a package driver present. Not everyone has a network interface card, and even if they do, there aren't always packet drivers or shims available. Easy alternative would be adding a public domain or opensource dummy shim so local use is possible. >> It supports multiple network repositories - this allows anyone to create >> (and host) his own FreeDOS packages repository (we could imagine >> internet FreeDOS repositories with old shareware games, or DOS ports of >> specific opensource projects, etc...). Can a directory be specified? Creating a local config file with loc1 = x:\cdrom\loc1 loc2 = x:\cdrom\loc2 (etc..) seems easy enough to do from a batchfile. > While this is still pretty dang cool, I can't help but halfway think > that a lot of times it's just easier to host / post / hoard self-made > patches (aka, plain text differences or build scripts) than actual > binaries + full sources + whatever. It's just lighter and easier > (sometimes!) to make people build their own. Getting documentation on how to setup environments for source code management, packaging and even just getting simple diff/patch programs is still a nightmare. > Do you have packet driver emulation enabled in DOSEMU? I never did > understand how to get that working (to say the least). Hence my only > recent experience with working packet driver is inside (buggy) > VirtualBox. I'm curious also. Emulated cards in emulators are the least of worries. Connecting virtual network cards to real networks seems like a horrible configuration issue. >> P.S. I've also done some packaging & repackaging work, and created a few >> FDNPKG repositories for FreeDOS, containing some development tools, >> FreeDOS BASE packages, utils, etc (they are all referenced in the >> default FDNPKG configuration file, so you can browse them using "fdnpkg >> search"). Much appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
