Hi, plenty of interesting discussion points in this thread and in the metados thread (combining both topics as they are both about distros).
* I agree with Joe that DOS should not overwrite anything by default, in particular not config files. I remember that old drivers would for example prepend their lines to your existing config plus make a backup. People may also have dual-boot. I personally think that it is okay to make fdconfig.sys if config.sys already exists, but put a comment line in the config.sys to let people know that their config.sys is ignored by FreeDOS, which uses fdconfig.sys :-) And if fdconfig.sys already exists as well, ask the user whether they want to either KEEP their old config (copy template of new config to same directory, so user can add some bits from there to theirs) or REPLACE their config (rename their old config first), of course with a default of keeping... * However, I think there should be an option to throw the new files over existing files in an existing FreeDOS dir. For extra complex elegance, you could first UNinstall things with existing LSM data instead of simple overwriting. The rationale in both cases is that people tend to add their stuff to "our" DOS directory and it sucks to have to dig up your 3 hand-installed tools from a "backup zip". * for the same reason, there could be an option to just RENAME the old DOS directory instead of moving the contents into a zip file, as suggested by Mercury. * Actually I think the whole idea of FDNPKG and similar is that you can smoothly install tools, including automatic processing of the case where you replace an old tool by a newer version of the same, see the abovementioned "extra complex" suggestion. * I agree that LZMA UPX is going too far and has too high hardware requirements. Use the open source version of UPX with --8086 mode. * We should include a nice subset of EMS XMS UMB HMA managers, as it depends on your hardware which are best. Our config can enable the most popular driver and have commented out alternatives, to avoid having unnecessary boot up menus. Disk space itself is no problem. * I agree that metados should include all tool docs: I remember that with my old Brezel distro, one additional floppy was enough to add HTMLHELP and all the text files that come with all BASE components. Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
