Re: [Freedos-devel] UNIX fortune for DOS
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 9/30/2018 1:02 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> >> >> Pretty much same. Some port of fortune from BSD... I don't see that as a >> big deal, it can find a place in FreeDOS. Random pong clone #262143, that's >> a bit different. >> >> -uso. > > freedos-user would IMHO a much better place to post about things like this > than freedos-devel... > > I think it's okay to post about programming for FreeDOS. I don't think it's out of line for stecdose to tell us about a program that's runs on FreeDOS. The email lists page (http://www.freedos.org/lists/) describes the email lists this way: Freedos-user Do you have a question about FreeDOS, or need help installing? Freedos-user is the place for general FreeDOS discussion. Freedos-devel Are you interested in writing programs for FreeDOS? Freedos-devel is for developers, developers, developers! Freedos-kernel Do you want to contribute to the FreeDOS kernel? Freedos-kernel is aimed at FreeDOS kernel developers. So it's okay to use Freedos-devel to talk about writing programs for FreeDOS, or porting programs to FreeDOS. Freedos-user would also be a good place to announce programs like this, since it's not asking for help from other developers. (But I'll admit that pong and fortune are pretty simple programs, not likely to garner much interest these days.) Jim ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] UNIX fortune for DOS
On 9/30/2018 1:02 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: Pretty much same. Some port of fortune from BSD... I don't see that as a big deal, it can find a place in FreeDOS. Random pong clone #262143, that's a bit different. -uso. freedos-user would IMHO a much better place to post about things like this than freedos-devel... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] UNIX fortune for DOS
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:18:20 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: Tom, I am not aware of anybody else (Jim or Eric, for example) ever specifying that this mailing list (freedos-devel) is only for development of FreeDOS proper and not for development on or targeting FreeDOS. While I don't necessarily share the view that this mailing list needs to be exclusively about elitist FreeDOS development, I do think that it should be a list at least about (DOS) development. Announcements of random new micro-projects is not development. Unless the post would be "I hit a problem in my fortune program which leads to crash and I don't get what's going on", or the project would be helpful to developers (like some neat library, or a new compiler or what not) but here it's not. Simple announcements are, I think, better posted to the user list, and/or to comp.os.msdos.apps, comp.os.msdos.misc & alt.os.free-dos. When I subscribe a devel list, I expect low activity, but on the rare occasions when there is activity at all I expect it to be actually interesting. Mateusz Pretty much same. Some port of fortune from BSD... I don't see that as a big deal, it can find a place in FreeDOS. Random pong clone #262143, that's a bit different. -uso. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] UNIX fortune for DOS
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:18:20 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > Tom, I am not aware of anybody else (Jim or Eric, for example) ever > specifying that this mailing list (freedos-devel) is only for > development of FreeDOS proper and not for development on or targeting > FreeDOS. While I don't necessarily share the view that this mailing list needs to be exclusively about elitist FreeDOS development, I do think that it should be a list at least about (DOS) development. Announcements of random new micro-projects is not development. Unless the post would be "I hit a problem in my fortune program which leads to crash and I don't get what's going on", or the project would be helpful to developers (like some neat library, or a new compiler or what not) but here it's not. Simple announcements are, I think, better posted to the user list, and/or to comp.os.msdos.apps, comp.os.msdos.misc & alt.os.free-dos. When I subscribe a devel list, I expect low activity, but on the rare occasions when there is activity at all I expect it to be actually interesting. Mateusz -- FreeDOS is present on the USENET, too! alt.os.free-dos ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
