Hi Rugxulo et al, indeed xgrep and grep both have their uses... Regarding BWBASIC, current FreeBASIC is extremely cool while BWBASIC was small but somewhat sketchy, I would agree to drop BWBASIC from the distro.
Note that the modern compilers (OpenWatcom, FPC (Pascal), Free- BASIC, DJGPP and so on) are rather large, so I am glad that they are not part of BASE ;-) And do not forget NASM and JWASM... :-) What do you mean by BCC? The Borland Museum compiler? That one is license-wise not suitable for distribution, although Borland at some point offered it as free download. You can compare that to the Microsoft essential font package: You cannot ship it with Linux distros, but you can ship a tool which makes it easy for users to download them directly from Microsoft after reviewing and accepting the license. It should not be a requirement to be 16-bit compatible when we are looking at non-BASE packages. If there are 16-bit versions, it is good to include them, but for example in case of NASM, I would make 32-bit the default. It just works well on common PC. >> devel\bwbasic >> devel\bcc >> >> These aren't extremely useful (plus fairly buggy) to most people. >> >> Someone requested basic and c, I will remove them. > > Well, we already have FreeBASIC and OpenWatcom, which (despite 386+) > are more robust than the above. Unless you're going for extreme 16-bit Looking at the complete list here: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/software/?cat=devel Anybody still using VAL, SmallBASIC, BASEC, YASM? S-LANG anybody? I remember REXX was liked by DOS users? I guess PACIFIC-C should be dropped (closed source). FASM, WASM and JWASM all have fans. Is CC386 popular? Cute to see that there now is a new Forth compiler! Cheers, Eric PS: Dropped as in "not included in the ISO", listing on www is fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
