Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/12/2015 00:02, Rugxulo wrote: > >>> devel\fpc >> >> 3.0.0 was released recently, but there is no "package" for it yet. > > Same goes for DJGPP. And FreeBASIC. And surely many more packages. This > is one of the issues that I pointed to in my latest "call for > volunteers" on the user list. But since call remained completely > unanswered, I assume nobody cares. So why bother?
Mateusz, "current" DJGPP, at minimum, would be roughly 40 MB (.ZIP'd !!). And that's ignoring tons of sources (which can't be rebuilt atop DOS anyways). Plus keep in mind that six months ago, the "recommended" set was still 4.7.3 and 2.03p2 (not 5.3 and 2.05)! So things do change, sometimes too slowly, other times too quickly. Upgrading is always a mess. FPC has some (but not all) things that won't install (fully, if at all) without LFNs. Sure, the minimal set should work with SFNs, but I don't know about all the extras. It's hard to ignore because someone might complain. Then again, LFNs aren't always a great idea either (as you have acknowledged). FreeBASIC is loosely based upon DJGPP's libc and tools anyways, much moreso than FPC. So it has the same problems. It's easy to whip up a quick package, even for latest "stable" release, but would it be any good? Would anyone use it? And how long until we have to refresh it (yet again)? It's just very tedious work for very little gain. "Nobody cares" is probably accurate. There aren't a lot of developers, and the few that exist must not need (or want) a proper FDNPKG "package". As much as I like FDNPKG and think it's great, I also don't want to pretend that it solves all problems. Please don't be discouraged by this, but we just can't have everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
