Michael Devore escreveu: > Yeah, but if you release what is perceived by more than a few percentage of > users as a failed install or operation, FreeDOS could require significant > damage control. And give more credibility to a few vultures who will > over-hype FD problems for their own purposes, though that's probably a > given at this point regardless of what's done. The negatives may be muted > with a bit more time to test and to allow the 1.0-announce influx of bug > reports to clear.
I fully agree with Michael: - instalation shoulb be reasonably smooth (I am not following this) - incompatiblilities should be minimal (this is almost good so far) - "features for the modern world" are important, mainly FAT32 and LFN > But I don't like the idea of a hyperbolic approach to 1.0 either. There > must be a middle path, and I think it can be done without going through > the full-blown transitional alpha-1, beta-1, beta-2, RC-1, RC-2, etc. > business. That is a point too... As soon as FreeDOS 1.0 is out, it will get installed in a lot of machines, if people feel that there is support and new bug fix releases shortly after, it can also be interpred as positive ;-) Ah! does anyone know how to make a new FreeDOS realease for DOSEMU in .rpm format? Alain PS: I am allways amazed by Michael's debugging like this one about QB40... This one was even more complex than the C=00 for some Borland programs !!! > > End of the month must look awful tempting to get official 1.0 release > declared a done deal and in distribution. I'm just saying maybe that's > not such a great idea depending on what transpires over the next couple of > weeks, though I'm not personally averse to the idea if next candidate > release goes well on all fronts. An official 1.0 full release before Aug > 31st sounds ideal -- I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, just that it > shouldn't be required to happen. > > For my part, I'm going to try and get a HIMEM with the buggy BIOS > workaround per Tom's feedback, and minor miscellany on HIMEM and EMM836, > out by Sunday. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
