>> But, IIRC, this was verbatim the version from OpenWatcom. My point was >> that people who are developers already have it (or similar). If we're >> going to include it, we should also include "link" (like MS-DOS used >> to). Also, there's no DOSSHELL or BASIC there either, and nobody >> complained. So some of these things should really be removed. I do >> really think exe2bin is useless here. > > DR DOS never had BASIC, and PC DOS 7 drops it (I *think* 6.x still had > basic.com/basica.com on the IBM side, after dropping qbasic). And FreeDOS > *does* have a GEM package, right? That covers DOSSHELL - it's more or > less an enhanced version of DR DOS's counterpart of it (i.e., ViewMax).
We have several implementations of BASIC in the "Devel" package set (formerly "Lang"): Basec, BwBasic, FreeBasic, SmallBasic. That seems like plenty. I even wrote a few simple BwBasic programs long ago, I think for one of the FreeDOS Beta releases, just so there'd be some BASIC programs you could experiment with. And yes, OpenGEM is the only graphical package included in the "GUI" package set. This is basically the same as DRDOS ViewMax, which was a competitor/analogy to MSDOS DOSSHELL. Over the years, we've included other GUI's in FreeDOS, but eventually the developers stopped working on them. OpenGEM is at least stable and works very well. I've emailed Shane many times to talk about his future plans for OpenGEM. I don't know if he is still working on it in 2011. The OpenGEM web site hints that "something exciting" is coming, but it's been a very long time since he put that message up. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
