Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, sparky4 insano <sparky4444444444...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! > but it is quite difficult to port it over....
These are just .ZIPs with a special layout, so it's not like you can't manually install them. Besides, most DOS programs don't have lots of dependencies, so it's much less critical. > I also wish the developers of Free Open Source Software for DOS would at > least make a FreeDOS package of their stuff and put it in the repository!! Such as what exactly? If you have a specific request or two, feel free to ask (but don't get your hopes up, most people are too busy or indifferent, sadly). I'm the worst at focusing on a specific task, but admittedly, you can't do everything at once, you have to narrow your view for a bit, just to keep things simpler and manageable. So it's unlikely that "everything" (BASE, NET, UTIL) will all be updated at once. But little by little .... > Speaking of which i want to update a bunch of the packages in the > repository! Talk to Mateusz. Or tell me specifically which ones are outdated and need replacing, and I'll update them on iBiblio for you / us. Anybody else wanting to directly help should probably email Jim Hall privately. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ (Just for example, /devel/djgpp-obj.zip is ObjC, but it's GCC 4.7.1, after their transition to using G++, and honestly I don't think it works at all. But I chickened out and didn't email Mateusz recently. Maybe now's a good time to mention it, but I don't really know ObjC, and the examples I tested were minimal. Andris of DJGPP didn't seem to know either.) > also DOSFSCK for DOS port is quite outdated... > > Just to let you know... Dunno, in the few times I used it, it worked okay. What specifically does it not do? What is latest / better? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
