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Geraldo Netto Non dvcor, dvco => Sapere Aude São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt site: http://exdev.sf.net/ On 11 July 2013 13:58, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am glad to announce the release of a new version of the FreeDOS > network package manager: FDNPKG v0.95 ! > > This release is the result of a few days of my work. I cleaned up the > code pretty extensively, rewriting some of the biggest modules, added a > few cool features and fixed a bunch of bugs. > Some of the nice features are: support for gopher repositories (gopher > is so much nicer than http!), and support for LZMA packages. Although I > wouldn't recommend using LZMA archives on a regular basis. Even if the > compression is about 20-25% better than deflate, it requires huge > amounts of memory at decompressing time (or a swap-capable DPMI > service). You need ~24M of RAM to be able to decompress an LZMA stream - > such amounts of RAM are often not available on oldish DOS machines. > However, it might make sense to use LZMA for (big) packages that we know > the user will have enough RAM (eg. 3D games...). > > Below is the exact changelog of this new FDNPKG release. > > FDNPKG v0.95 [11 Jul 2013] > - [fix] when updating a package, the new candidate is downloaded and > checked before the current package is removed from the system (before we > could end with our package being removed and none installed if the > download failed on the new one), > - [fix] remote package is not downloaded anymore if it's already > installed (unless we want to update it), > - [new] replaced the embedded UNZIP kludge by my own unzip implementation, > - [new] replaced the embedded htget kludge by my own, lighter & > simpler http implementation, > - [new] the directory %DOSDIR%\packages is created automatically when > installing the first package, > - [new] the 'install' action do not ask what package version to > install, and installs the most recent one if it's possible to figure out > the latest version automatically (otherwise asks the user as before), > - [new] added gopher support for online repositories storage, > - [new] added support for LZMA-compressed packages, > - [new] added a progress feedback when downloading files, so in case > of big packages taking a long time to download, the user don't think > anymore that fdnpkg freezed, > - [new] added the possibility to update all packages in the system to > latest version at once (if newer versions are available), via 'fdnpkg > update', > - [new] renamed the 'showinstalled' action to 'listlocal', as the > latter is shorter/faster to type (but 'showinstalled' still works for > backward compatibility), > - [new] refactored the whole networking code to make it much easier to > integrate other tcp/ip stacks in the futur (mTCP maybe, if it makes it > into the 32bit world?). > > If you are already a happy fdnpkg user (and using the v0.94), you can > make it update itself via the command 'fdnpkg update fdnpkg'. > > The main website of FDNPKG has changed, now it's hosted here: > http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net/ > > I'd like also to use this occasion to call for volunteers. Any package > management system is useless without actual packages, and it's really > hard for me to both develop/test/maintain FDNPKG and do packaging for > it. If you are finding fdnpkg useful, know how to handle a zip archiver, > and have some spare time, please consider giving a hand to FreeDOS by > contributing packages. To dump the current list of available packages, > one could use 'fdnpkg vsearch'. Not only core FreeDOS programs/tools are > concerned, but any DOS program/game that is a) useful and b) compliant > with the open-source/libre principles. > > cheers, > Mateusz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
