Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I just wanted "to add my mustard" (=denglish, =german english) to make this FD update discussion a little useful for end users (for improved files) by adding the "to-do-list" and "plans for the future" that I found at the FD base section while working on help 1.1.0 (will surely not be

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-17 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On May 16, 2022, at 7:24 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Any thoughts about the ability to build (more than kernel, FreeCOM, ISO) from > source? > The release build process does not compile individual programs. It pulls pre-compiled versions staged in package format from the Official

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-16 Thread Louis Santillan
Any thoughts about the ability to build (more than kernel, FreeCOM, ISO) from source? On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:11 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hi, > > Based on the discussion during the online get-together and the tool-chain > and release processes used to maintain packages and deploy release

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-16 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, Based on the discussion during the online get-together and the tool-chain and release processes used to maintain packages and deploy release media, this is what I’m thinking… The pipeline used to assemble all the different aspects into a release is very capable. It can handle multiple OS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Jim, My own thoughts: On Sun, 15 May 2022 at 21:56, Jim Hall wrote: > I'm interested in a parallel test distribution that gets updated on a > regular schedule, by an automated (or mostly-automated) process. Let's > say there's a new test distribution once a month. Each test >

[Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-15 Thread Jim Hall
Looking ahead to "FreeDOS Next," I wanted to continue the conversation again about test releases for FreeDOS. Before, I called this idea a "rolling release" - but that's not the right term. So that might be why the last conversation on this topic didn't go anywhere. *Where we are now: We use a