On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Aleksej Saushev wrote: > Is there any reason to keep DOS and OS/2 support?
These two platforms are basically unsupported, anyway; we haven't tried them nor seems there be any demand ;-). Last supported DOS version was 0.5, last supported OS/2 version was 0.4. I don't expect the current DOS and OS/2 ports to work anymore. > I understand that I can find FreeDOS and try using it, but this > doesn't seem practical. I use FreeDOS for BIOS updates (burn a floppy image CD, because all these BIOS updaters assume DOS and a floppy - I have neither ;-). The main problem with DOS nowadays is that x86_64 doesn't even run dosemu any more. I could use qemu, though. The fact that DJGPP was last updated 2002 doesn't hurt much, since old GCCs compile Gforth better than new ones ;-). > As for OS/2 I'm not aware of any upstream > support at all, I think it is simply missing. OS/2 is indeed really dead. > I propose to remove support for DOS and OS/2. I would be ok with that. Anton? > Regardless of this proposal I suggest following changes to > Makefile.in, which bring usage of more common idioms: Applied. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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