---- Le sam., 01 oct. 2022 10:48:03 -0400 Jerome Shidel a écrit ---- > As I see it, this leaves us with 3 choices: > > 1) Drop nearly 300mb of packages from the CD. > 2) Do nothing and call it a DVD > 3) Move all development related packages onto their own disc. Have DevelCD > and seperate BonusCD.
I am for 3) Move all development related packages onto their own disc. Have DevelCD and seperate BonusCD. The download time (and bandwidth) make me want to go that direction... obviously the cost is in part in deciding which packages goes on which CD... and the installation related stuff... but I feel it is worth to be done. The fact that some would drop the new packages made me think a bit. I realize that for many, probably most, FreeDOS is only there to make old programs (most likely proprietary) continue to work. And I do ask myself a bit if the time I put on working on DJGPP related stuff... would not be put with more long time effect if it was put on a more recent OS, whichever it is. But then, there is the aspect of doing with what I already know... avoiding the cost of learning new stuff (which can be fun in itself however). There is the fact that FreeDOS is a kind of ... last holder of the flag. Seems that a bit of the contract with ibiblio is that they give hard disk space and bandwidth, and in exchange we give time to maintain... and develop I would dare to say, new tools and programs. Because FreeDOS become less popular with time, it make sense for me that FreeDOS project regroup new developement done, in the hope of keeping it (I believe it would be in serious risk of disappearing of Internet if we do not do it, which would be a bit sad to me). Also, as being open-source code... even not very interesting stuff has a learning to code value. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
