Replying to freedos-devel because this conversation seems better suited for the email list, not a private email.
I've reformatted to be easier to read: On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 7:00 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > [..] > In related news, I think we should also have: > * both XFDISK and FDISK > * all of HIMEM > * XMGR and FDXMS286 (maybe not FDXXMS and not FDXMS?) > * both SRDISK and RDISK > * both UDVD2 and ELTORITO > * both JEMMEX and JEMM386 > * both AMBHELP and HTMLHELP > * both DOSFSCK and CHKDSK > * both EDLIN and EDIT > * both UHDD and CDRCACHE > * both UHDD and LBACACHE > * both MKEYB and KEYB > * both SHSUCDX and SHSUCDHD > * both DOSZIP and DN2 > * both P7ZIP and ZIP/UNZIP > > but: > * NOT both DOSLFN and LFNDOS (which of them was better?) > * NOT GCDROM (an old predecessor-sibling of UDVD2) > * NOT COMPINFO either given that INFOPLUS is much better > * Maybe not even both FREEDOOM and BOOM at the same time > * Also, UIDE should be "less default" and UHDD more default > Even so much default that the installer uses it itself :-) > [..] My thoughts on a few of these: SRDISK and RDISK are both RAM disks. RDISK is from Jack Ellis, SRDISK is from Marko Kohtala. However, I don't know that we currently have RDISK in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4; it's not on the package list in the wiki (http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages) nor on the package report on ibiblio (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc4/report.html). Even though they do the same thing, I don't see a conflict in the overlap; I'd be okay with both of these. I disagree on keeping both FDISK and XFDISK. I think it would be better to go to just one FDISK app. I'm not considering AEFDISK here because AEFDISK is a command-line partition tool, not a full-screen app like FDISK and XFDISK. Note that XFDISK was moved to the "Bonus" CD anyway. The note in the wiki says about XFDISK: "license is okay, but is this package needed/useful? (We already have FDISK in Base)" No problems with keeping both EDLIN and EDIT. These are standard DOS programs, and I don't know why we would remove either of them. Also okay with keeping both DOSZIP and DN2. These are both file managers. I don't want to "open the door" to adding a bunch of different file managers, but I think two is okay. And I'm fine with keeping both P7Zip and Zip/Unzip. Note that Zip/Unzip are the standard Info-Zip archive tools, while P7Zip can work with some other files. I'd like to keep Zip/Unzip for sure, but P7Zip also works with other archive types. And there's a note on the wiki's package list that says, in part: "Consider including only a few of these (Zip, Unzip, p7zip, arj) and maybe the rest could be part of an Extras image." So that seems like a done decision, anyway. I would like to pick a direction with FreeDOS HELP, though. I recall that HTML Help had some bugs, are these still there? Meanwhile, I think AMBHELP (version of AMB) is really well organized, and it's able to read the HTMLHELP files (after conversion) so this seems like a good Help platform to move forward on. I agree that we should pick one of DOSLFN or LFNDOS. I don't use LFN, so I don't know which is better. I defer to others here. FreeDOOM v Boom are both ports of the Doom source code. It's been a while since I looked at the games very closely. But didn't FreeDOOM have a dependency on Boom? Or am I misremembering that? Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
