On 7/8/06, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)
XDMA/XCDROM will be included, regardless of certain people's problems with this. This is great software and deserves to be included. > (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? There will be one unofficial test release (and several even more unofficial ones probably), and one final release. > > 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 > -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
