At 10:49 AM 7/28/2004 +0200, Aitor wrote:
Hi,
Well, I tend to be concerned about MS compatibility, but your arguments are convincing. I was just thinking if it is sensible (I don't know, opinions wellcome) to call the option /NOALTBOOT instead, so that those that use this option get not confused.
(well, my option would be compatibility so do not include by default, unless you include /ALTBOOT, but that's your call).
This is pretty cosmetic stuff and really, EMM386 has been acting like ALTBOOT from the beginning. I'm open to reversing it after the mythical FreeDOS 1.0 release, but reversing things from the way they've always been right now doesn't seem to make a lot of sense and could potentially bring out a lot of immediate incompatibilities that have grown up around the way EMM386 has worked until now.
I like using ALTBOOT's name because it directly corresponds to MS's option and reversed or re-reversed, it's what's out there and literally is the option desired. What would you do with the newly renamed option after any later 180 degree swap? It would a useless orphan.
One of the main items scheduled after 1.0 release is a big MS compatibility cleanup. In my opinion that's when ALTBOOT's case should be argued as to whether it needs to be spun around or not.
I would agree with Aitor - the /ALTBOOT option in FreeDOS EMM386 should act the same as MS-DOS EMM386. Since this option is intended to work the other way around, the /NOALTBOOT option seems a nice solution.
If there's a later 180-degree change in EMM386 default behavior, then /NOALTBOOT can be deprecated (nop, and later removed) and /ALTBOOT (same as MS-DOS EMM386) would become a new option.
Your call, though.
-jh
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