Op 10-8-2011 0:04, Rugxulo schreef: > I'm not sure most people (even me) want to rebuild the kernel and > shell a lot. In particular, rebuilding the shell (even though easy to > do) at least "looks" kinda scary complicated (to me). I kinda wish we > had a much simpler build process (or even much simpler shell).
Actually it's pretty simple due to Bart's CONFIG.BAT, the only annoying thing is that it has to be manually adapted to suit your system. > Yeah, in a perfect world! ;-) I can't remember why, but I think > they always had to leave out some features, hence there was no > "universal" shell that would cover 8086 on up with all features (e.g. > LOADFIX). I don't know why. The *real* person to ask would be Steffan > Kaiser, but I'm fairly sure he hasn't been involved in several years. I'm pretty sure there was a 64KB limit for something. 4DOS seems to happily ignore that though. I think Steffen pretty much retired from FreeDOS, so the relatively recent decision to port FreeCOM (including SUPPL library) to OpenWatcom was a quite good one. > Believe it or not, it's easy to build, just kinda complex looking, > which is annoying. It looks too fragile, and it makes me think it's > too easy to fall apart. Like I said, there was (maybe?) one regression > in latest OW build, but other than that, I dunno. It really puts me > off, and I'm not much of a programmer (C or otherwise) anyways, so I > haven't tried patching / fixing it yet. :-/ > >> I haven't had time to do much testing nor re familiarize myself enough >> to get the localized versions. > > Ditto, not a huge priority to me (but I'm pretty random). I'm not entirely sure anymore how FreeCOM was built out of all of its components. Parts are in (newly introduced) config.bat, additional parts were appended (critical error handler for example) and finally the language files which add a lot of uncompressed size. http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/freecom/trunk/scripts/makecmd.bat?revision=1696&view=markup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
