Re: [Freedos-devel] DOjS update and size suggestions

2024-11-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi Mercury, The UPX issue would be irrelevant if we didn't ship binaries at all. Hear me out. :) Well, even our compressed sources are huge compared to the binaries. I think we would be "more papal than the Pope" if we worried about whether OpenSSL has any complaints against getting UPX-co

Re: [Freedos-devel] Binaries vs Sources (was about size suggestion)

2024-11-30 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Le sam., 30 nov. 2024 01:31:29 -0500 Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel a écrit >What better way to ensure that the packages we ship both currently and in the >future meet this crucial goal >than to prefer that a package contain only source code, which the installer >then builds into

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOjS update and size suggestions

2024-11-30 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
> The UPX issue would be irrelevant if we didn't ship binaries at all. Hear > me out. :) > > Repeatedly, I have seen stressed here the importance of making sure all > packages we ship are 100% open source. And rightfully so - I don't > disagree with that. Be careful not to conflate things here --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Binaries vs Sources (was about size suggestion)

2024-11-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Jim Hall via Freedos-devel, am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 19:19 schrieben Sie: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:49 AM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > wrote: >> >> Hallo Herr Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel, >> >> am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 16:34 schrieben Sie: >> >> >> > I think w

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOjS update and size suggestions

2024-11-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Dear Mercury, am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 07:31 schrieben Sie: > The UPX issue would be irrelevant if we didn't ship binaries at all. Hear me > out. :) 1) the FreeDOS project is primarily about MSDOS compatibility; only then comes GPL. and MSDOS compatibility is all about BINARY compatib

Re: [Freedos-devel] Binaries vs Sources (was about size suggestion)

2024-11-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel, am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 16:34 schrieben Sie: > I think we should develop a source package format, that handle dependencies, > because sources handle > a lot of libraries, that make a lot dependencies. I would be interested to learn about all

Re: [Freedos-devel] Binaries vs Sources (was about size suggestion)

2024-11-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:49 AM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hallo Herr Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel, > > am Samstag, 30. November 2024 um 16:34 schrieben Sie: > > > > I think we should develop a source package format, that handle > > dependencies, because sources handle > > a lot