Hello list,
I consulted the SvarDOS package format help page [1] and also asked
Robert about this (who actually suggested all this). I created two draft
packages for SvarDOS [2], one binary/documentation .svp package and one
source .zip package. I based them on the FreeDOS package that I already
created.
Robert had two comments about this:
1. My .svp package has lowercase filenames within the DEVEL/LDEBUG/
directory. (NB all filenames fit into the 8.3 scheme.)
2. My .zip source package also contains all the binaries in the
ldebug/bin/ subdirectory. (It actually also contains the compressed
executables in the ldebug/tmp/ subdirectories too.)
I don't think that I need to change either of those. However, I did not
want to just ignore this advice so I opted to include it here for the
record. There is one more issue:
3. The compressed executables selected in the FreeDOS package's BIN/ and
in the SvarDOS package's DEVEL/LDEBUG/ (ldebug.com and ldebugx.com) are
compressed with LZMA-lzip. Although the depacker is 8086-compatible, it
may need excessive time (such as several minutes) to depack on low-end
machines. Users can avoid this either by using the *u.com executables
(uncompressed), or by renaming a compressed executable of another
format, or the uncompressed executables, to the default name.
Regards,
ecm
[1]: http://svardos.org/phpamb.php?fname=help/help-en&f=pkgfmt.ama
[2]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/ldebug/svardpkg/
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