Hi Mateusz, On 17 Feb 2022, at 10:39, Mateusz Viste via Svardos-users wrote:
> This message is in response to ticket 43881 at > https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/ticket/43881 where Robert says: > >> On the error list at http://www.svardos.org/?p=repo&showlogs=1#logs I >> noticed several programs, e.g., APPEND, ASSIGN, which were part of MS-DOS, >> but are currently no core package in SvarDOS. > > When I created the initial version of SvarDOS, I wanted to make it as lean as > possible, and excluded some of such "MSDOS-like" programs that I myself > rarely used (append, assign, debug, print, ...). This was to keep the number > of installation floppies as low as possible, so SvarDOS included only things > that are truly critical: disk management (fdisk), shell (COMMAND.COM) and a > few programs that managing files would be a pain without (move, tree, xcopy, > ...). > > Now, what are the options for these MSDOS-like programs that are not part of > CORE? > > 1. make them all part of CORE "because they were in MSDOS 5.x and SvarDOS > tries to mimic that", we might go from 3 5.25 install floppies to 4, but is > it really a problem? > 2. move them to a separate directory (progs) > 3. tolerate their presence in bin/ by flagging them as some kind of > "core-extended" packages (not present on install floppies, but user can still > install them via pkgnet) > > While I am pretty sure option 2 is plain stupid, I am mitigated between > options 1 and 3. I think I have a preference for 3, but then it requires > writing some kind of rules that say what kind of MS-DOS-like packages are not > part of SvarDOS, and on what criterion. I don't really know how to put that > in writing objectively. > I would vote for option 3. As the rule, you wrote "include only things that are truly critical". I think that is a good rule. > There is one thing that is important to me, though: it's that the entire > SvarDOS installation stays on a single 2.88 diskette so it can still be > installed from a CD via a BIOS-emulated drive, ie. without requiring any kind > of drivers. Currently we have about 280K of available space on the 2.88 > image. That will increase to some 800K when SvarCOM will replace FreeCOM, so > still "a lot" of place... although we should keep some space for including > networking drivers in the future for users to have an easier access to > networking. > +1 Greetings Carsten
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