Hi again,
by looking at the more verbose > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues instead of just the mail summary > * Need to have: (blocking) > > 1. Fixed MBR detection > 2. Updated packages > 3. Fixed Codepage and time separator data errors in COUNTRY.SYS I noticed that blocking item 2 mentions: Include XMGR and FDXMS in the BonusCD, "to give people alternatives in case of problems with HIMEM or JEMMEX." While I appreciate adding XMGR, this is much more of a "nice to have" than adding UHDD (next to UDVD2 and the ELTORITO driver) which is not mentioned on the wiki yet but would be pretty important to have. LBACACHE even is still in "base" in spite of having been superseded by UHDD for all practical purposes ages ago, yet UHDD got tucked away on the bonus CD while it should have been loaded at boot both by the installer and the installed default FreeDOS base system as far as I am concerned. You can keep LBACACHE in "full", where CDRCACHE already is. That can be used to cache ELTORITO during install, because UHDD itself only caches UDVD2 and fixed disks. > * Nice to have: (not blocking) > > 1. Improved language and translation support > 2. FDAPM ("parse larger ACPI blocks") > 3. CTMOUSE ("become 8086 compatible") > 4. NGE NIBBLES ("improve documentation") > 5. CDROM2 ("add STOP and UPC commands") > 6. CDRCACHE ("remove messages about raw access") 7. The documentation of MODE is outdated, still mentions disk head parking, lacks CODEPAGE and text mode details. Those are nice to have UPDATES, how about all nice to have ADDITIONS discussed earlier, such as the system info, media players, image viewers and other categories, of course only with suitable license? For system info, I recommend INFOPLUS 1.58, which is better than compinfo we include neither yet, while MS DOS had MSD, so you could even argue that INFOPLUS should become "base". Same argument for FDSHIELD :-) Packages such as XFDISK and FDSHIELD should be moved to more visible categories, not limited to Bonus CD, also RDISK. But GCDROM and UIDE can be moved to Bonus, those should be replaced by UDVD2 and UHDD for "base". We already include DOS Navigator and DOSZIP commander as file managers, might want to advertise that more? Same for some smaller, useful compilers/assemblers, maybe NASM, JWASM, FASM, FBC, FPC, INSIGHT, UPX. OW? > * Things that might wait for "FreeDOS 2.0" > > 1. More compilers on the Full install (as space permits) > 2. Replace HTML Help with AMB Help (both will be available in FreeDOS > 1.3, will switch completely to AMB Help in next release) > 3. New packages not already included in RC4 Would be cool if 386SWAT and DPMIONE could be added already in 1.3, this and adding HX would in no way impact other packages, which would justify deferring addition to 2.0, as long as licenses are fine. Regards, Eric > INFOPLUS by Andrew Rossmann, last updated in 1993. > License is public domain. > https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysinfo/ifp1p158.zip > (binary) > https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysinfo/ifp1s158.zip > (sources) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
