> DOSLFN is probably not free enough for Fedora [...] I wasn't talking especially about Linux license compatibility here, sorry.
> Is the 4DOS license okay for Fedora? I doubt this. Lucho added some ridiculous crap and limitations to it. > Not really written for - Japheth just stopped keeping an eye on the > NoMySo compatibility of the sources. If you fix that, you can turn > the sources into NASM compatible and compile those. Not for HX but > at least for HIMEMX and JEMM386 :-). Yeah, but ask Japheth whether he wants to keep NoMySo compatibility at all or whether he would use NoMySo once and then develop his software for NASM. I beat the answer is no. >> Japheth for this, it just doesn't comply to the current FreeDOS Spec, so > > I do not think Japheth is interested in any spec here. So we agree here. But if anyone wants "The FreeDOS Spec" to be used seriously for the FreeDOS project, it should not contradict some of the major programs (other CLI, LFN, DPMI, EMS, XMS) currently available (and advertised) as part of the project. >> the Spec should be updated to allow at least all open-source assemblers >> available for DOS. > > Not really... Licenses differ and NASM _is_ more free than JWASM. > It is also bad to use too many different compilers / assemblers. Tell that to the MASM crowd. (Who will likely send you back to the NASM crowd, though.) >> A collection of NASM macros to assemble partly adapted source code >> doesn't >> seem possible to me. Even if it is (with some macro hacks) this would >> probably result in a new assembly language between the existing ones >> which >> neither the JWASM/MASM nor the NASM users would want to write for. > > Have a look at NoMySo - a Perl script which turns MASM syntax into > NASM and is quite sophisticated in doing so. Can probably be adapted > to work around the differences between MASM and JWASM as well :-p Just that JWASM is supposed to leave no differences between MASM and the former WASM - except new features. Regards, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
