Hi, On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, if it replicated original MS-DOS functionality, it should be in Base. > This includes programs like APPEND, ASSIGN, ATTRIB, CHKDSK, … UNDELETE, > UNFORMAT, XCOPY, … etc.
A lot of things nobody will ever use (e.g. APPEND, ASSIGN, RECOVER). Even some of the heavier useful ones are too obscure and thus aren't used every single day. And noobs certain won't use them. (How often do you mandatory need to run CHKDSK, UNDELETE, UNFORMAT? Not much!) "BASE" is just probably too big. Sure, some of it is (barely) useful, but that doesn't mean that it is so crucial as to "always" have present. Honestly, I suspect you disagree with me, but even things like ATTRIB or XCOPY aren't that useful except in certain cases. I don't use them every day. I'm not saying so bare bones that we only have shell and kernel, but it's just too many little pieces for us few left to maintain and keep lugging around forever. I say split off all the obscure stuff to being manually grabbed from the iBiblio mirror (or maybe an "extended" distro) and keep things simple. > We've always been very careful about extending the > "Base" list, but over time we have added one or two things that weren't in > the original MS-DOS. I prefer this list not grow too much. Extra items can > go in other sets, or just a single "Extras" software set if we don't want to > continue "Devel" and "Edit" and other sets. The average user isn't quite hardcore enough to care about all the little pieces. They just want to run a few select apps. They don't necessarily need everything and the kitchen sink. Compare what DOSBox doesn't give or what DOSEMU does give, and you'll see it's quite different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
