On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Gregory Pietsch wrote: > I just checked the source for edlin from the Odin 0.6 package, and it's > missing various files such as the configure script. Please put these > files back into the distribution, as they are referenced in the README > and INSTALL files that comes with the edlin 2.1 distro.
IIRC it was removed from the source that is distributed because: 1. it takes up > 160 kb -- autoconf related stuff takes up more than everything else taken together. 2. it's not necessary to reproduce the distributed edlin binary and is useless for 16bit DOS (and so it doesn't break with the GPL) It's reasonable for you to like people to redistribute the whole thing but it's reasonable for distributors to leave out unnecessary files. A similar situation occurs with freecom: to distribute its full source you also have to distribute the suppl source whereas only a small part of it is used in freecom, so it makes sense to strip down the suppl source if you need to make your source distribution smaller. IMHO a configure script for edlin is overhead even for gcc on Linux/UNIX, since it just uses standard ANSI/ISO C90. Maybe a compromise is possible? Bart ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
