Hi, > On Feb 8, 2026, at 12:20 PM, Everaldo Bernardo Cunha via Freedos-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello friends! > > Me and some colleagues created a GnuCOBOL compiler for the FreeDOS 1.4 > environment that I would like to make available in the repository. Can you > help me with this task? I created the package, but I need to know if it can > be accepted by the community or not. See the result of the command "DIR *.* > >> SEE.TXT" below:
For inclusion in the FreeDOS GitLab Archive, Official Online Download and Update Repositories or the FreeDOS Release media, your package will need approved by the FreeDOS developer community. These places are all very different with various purposes. * The GitLab Archive is where all packages we provide go for staging. They must exist here in order to be included in the Official Download and Update Repositories or on the FreeDOS Release Media. Packages there are “staged” in using the package layout used by FreeDOS. * All accepted packages are made available in the Download and Update Repositories. Such packages can be download directly in FreeDOS using a network aware package manager like FDNPKG. That of course depends on the computer having DOS networking setup and functioning. Which is not always the easiest thing to accomplish. * Not all accepted packages are provided on the FreeDOS Release media. So you will need to make your package available to download and get approval from the Developer Community in order to get it included in some or all of those locations. Since there is currently no version of Cobol in any of those places, odds are very good it will be accepted eventually. However, there is something I can do to help expedite the process a little. I have an Unofficial package staging area on GitLab primarily for packages not in the Official FreeDOS GitLab Archive. It contains software which I feel can be useful and can be legally redistributed. However, not all of the programs are open source or there are different programs that mostly do the same thing in the Official Packages. Packages staged in that Unofficial GitLab Archive are published to my own Unofficial FreeDOS Download and Update Server and other servers as well. They can also be download in FreeDOS when the network aware package managers are properly configured for those other servers. The packages just do not exist in the Official locations. If you know how to use the basics of Git, I can create a project for your version of Cobol in the Unofficial GtiLab Archive. You can then request a Merge of your package. This will make available on the Unofficial Download and Update Servers. Then later on, if the Developer community approves of including it in the Official Repositories or with the Release, I can simply transfer the project from my Unofficial Archive into the Official one. :-) Jerome
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