On 1/26/2015 3:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
On Jan 26, 2015 4:41 AM, "JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hello!I was reading you discussion,and I agree with your idea.There
should be a mofe "formal" way to include programs into
freeDOS.Although I am new to this community,I am slowly becoming a
skilled programmer.As for the language,I think it matters not.If a
really good program is written in QBASIC,why should it matter the source?
>
>
QBASIC (as a specific example) is an issue for me, because it requires
proprietary software to compile the source code into an executable
binary. In order for someone else to contribute to the program, or to
take the program and modify it to add a new features, that person must
have the QBASIC compiler, which is propriety software.
I think I mentioned this before and it is still my strong belief that
this mindset is rather detrimental to get/keep any traction in terms of
getting software for FreeDOS.
DOS existed and had its high times well before "Open Source" became
fashionable, with fairly little of "real" DOS based/targeting
compilers/interpreters/development environments ever being released as
such.
If you are limiting the project the way you intend, you are pretty much
cutting the lifeline for FreeDOS by having to rely on oversized
compilers which where designed and developed with Windows/Linux in mind
and are only marginally backported or still providing real DOS target
support.
And what once seemed like a viable alternative are slowly dying out as
well, as it seems to be the case with OpenWatcom.
Ralf
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