Hi Blair, 2006/7/5, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical > installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would > blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works > pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. > > Unless anyone releases a showstopper-fixed graphical installer :-). > > Aitor: Keyb 2.0 pre4 will be included if you cannot manage to get 2.0 > released in time (no pressure).
Okay. Frankly, XT support is already there (unsupported). The only missing feature would be beeping, but I don't think it is important. I'll even decide wether I'll release current one (with small patches) as 2.0 final to be launched with FreeDOS 1.0. I am a bit worried about DISPLAY, though. > In FreeCOM world, 0.84pre2 will be used for the testing release; it > fully supports long filenames and I don't see any new bugs since > 0.84pre1. If people end up having many problems, I will fall back to > 0.84pre1 for 1.0. I fully agree! > Michael Devore: I'm eagerly awaiting that upcoming EMM386 so that it > can be included :-). By the ammount of complains that occur when this very important piece of code has any incidence (mostly misconfiguration, as we've seen that it's working frankly well), I'd say it is sensible. > One thing is for sure though, that if 1.0 is a failure, FreeDOS could > suffer greatly, so testers are REALLY appreciated. If we do end up > having to postpone the release for one more month due to some > showstopping bugs, we will have to let everyone know that because many > are awaiting 1.0 eagerly. I'm willing to test! Under VMWARE I was always stuck with some problem the few times I tried: I seem to remember that it was about the drive signature or something like that. I'll let you know in case someone can reproduce it too. I am also willing to re-cycle the to-do and post pages. In fact, I have already started. Wish there was an easy HTML->Wiki converter out there :) I would like to say a final words about this, also replying to Imre. Imre, in no way I did mean to remove the fun of contributing for FreeDOS with the TOD-DO list. I did it in a moment in which it gave me the impression that the project was a collection of impaired MS-DOS compatibility, and on the idea of seeing our distance to a MS-DOS distribution (after all, many claims from users are of the like "FreeDOS does not do this"). I've personally always been a bit conservative about the 1.0 idea, true. Let's face it: whereas our FreeCOM has a lot of new capabilities (specially after this new fresh air from Blair!) we do not have a SCANDISK (yes, dosfsck etc, but they are completely different tools), we still collect claims on the menus not being compatible to FreeDOS 1.0, we had a serious collection on bugs on some critical utilities, such as FDISK. My fear was to prematurely release FreeDOS 1.0, so that some users would get disappointed by some faults that we know to be minor (but we don't). Having said that, I am also greatly concerned about (1) the constant leak of developers (2) the fact that the project looked a bit stuck (3) the negative consequences of the previous too (specially on the words by Jim Hall, that I fully understand), thus as simply one more of the participants on this forum I'd like to gladly participate on the launch of FreeDOS 1.0. I'd say go for it! As I mentioned, Blair please let me know where I could download the test versions. And about re-cycling the to-do pages, I think I'm no longer focusing into milestones. I'd rather turn those pages in a new reference (I'd love to be a wiki, if I happen to find a good HTML->wiki, as I know some HTML but not wiki language at all), with three aims: - A laboratory of ideas - A dictionary of "how to MS-DOS=> FreeDOS" - A measurement of the interest of FreeDOS users I just finish with two questions: (a) could someone clarify to me a bit which UDMA/CACHE like tools are to be launched with FreeDOS 1.0? (opensourced, obviously) (b) how's the release policy going to be? After the freeze by the end of july there will be a release, then many testings, then bugfixes... how many "pre"s before the final? Aitor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
