[Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Blair Campbell
Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. Unless anyone releases a showstopper-fixed graphical

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Robert Riebisch
Blair Campbell wrote: p7zip 4.42 stable compiled with DJGPP is also included, and possibly Would you please explain (maybe off-list), how you did that? Your instruction makefile.djgpp to makefile.machine and compile didn't work for me. Ghostscript, ImageMagick, and various other Unix-DJGPP

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:07 AM 7/5/2006 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: One thing is for sure though, that if 1.0 is a failure, FreeDOS could suffer greatly, so testers are REALLY appreciated. If we do end up having to postpone the release for one more month due to some showstopping bugs, we will have to let everyone

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Do you include MPXPLAY too? Would be very interesting for many users. Bye Flo Blair Campbell wrote: Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would blame us for releasing buggy software. The text

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Florian Xaver
PS: If you want to include oZone, then I would release the latest version from my hard disc. Has more features, I also haven't found any bug now. bye Flo Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:57 AM 7/5/2006 +0200, Florian Xaver wrote: Do you include MPXPLAY too? Would be very interesting for many users. Seconded. MPXPLAY works better than several native Linux players, at least it did last time I tried to get a few to work (properly). Whomever wrote MPXPLAY did a great job.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes, I agree. MPXPLAY is an excellent audio player and one of my favorites. It's been on my include list since day 1. On 7/5/06, Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:57 AM 7/5/2006 +0200, Florian Xaver wrote: Do you include MPXPLAY too? Would be very interesting for many users.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. Unless anyone releases a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Blair Campbell
well, if you know PASCAL, it might be possible to modify the graphical installer, but otherwise, I would recommend a rewrite. The current gui installer requires a slightly older than latest version of FreePASCAL. On 7/5/06, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: Just to let

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
Okay, I'll plan to start a re-write. I hate to start from scratch on stuff like this, but maybe I can reference the old code (I am not a pascal programmer, but I can likely _read_ it) to save time. Slightly off-topic: can anyone recommend a (good) DOS graphical toolkit for C programming?

[Freedos-devel] New installer (was: Things about the upcoming distro)

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
Nope, I'm looking for a C library that helps draw the graphical elements (windows, buttons, ...) like to build a graphical application. It needs to be lightweight - this is going to fit on a boot disk. Embedded apps like cash register displays, etc use something like this. Along the lines of

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
FYI the sources for the GUI installer (as provided to me originally) can be found here: http://www.fdos.org/install/GUI_INST.RAR not 100% sure if its the latest one as I have a few variants on my hard drive as well, but should be close enough if you are just going to be reading and not

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
I'm not married to the idea of a GUI installer. I'm just as happy to update the text installer, but it has to look nice (again, this is the first experience people have with FreeDOS.) So, I'll expand my call for recommendations to include TUI toolkits. -jh Eric Auer wrote: Hi Jim, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-05 Thread Alain M.
Jim Hall escreveu: I'm not married to the idea of a GUI installer. I believe that there is a contradiction somewhere... There is a lot of fuss when something doesn't run on plain 8086 and then FreeDOS 1.0 will have both a Graphic installer (VGA) and a lot of non-standard-DOS applications...

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Blair Campbell
The text installer is not written in batch though... On 7/5/06, Marcus Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Hall wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would blame us for

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-05 Thread Blair Campbell
Well, FreeDOS RUNS on things less than 386's, but seriously, those people should be expecting to do a little work to get working systems. On 7/5/06, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Hall escreveu: I'm not married to the idea of a GUI installer. I believe that there is a contradiction