I am of the inclination to reserve space for a class of applications that are deemed to be shells and put them into the SHELLS group.
I feel APPS is too vague for the roles that shells carry out. Perhaps there aren't too many at the moment that can be offered to FreeDOS right now, but as a person whom had the joy of exploring multiple operating systems since being introduced to a zenith laptop, From Windows, to Linux, Mac, DOS, and reactOS, Shells were a key feature. Perhaps in time, more shells will be ported to FreeDOS if interest picks up. I could recall playing around with BASH v4.2 on Dos a short while ago because it offered a more robust scripting experience. Loops on BASH v4.2 for FreeDOS are a cakewalk. Regarding 4DOS and its inclusion in FreeDOS, I'm not to familiar with it to comment. ~ilobmirt [https://tech.lgbt/@ilobmirt] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 at 4:12 AM > From: "Wolf Bergenheim via Freedos-devel" < > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > To: "FreeDOS developers" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: "Wolf Bergenheim" <wolf+...@bergenheim.net> > Subject: [Freedos-devel] Shells (command interpreters) in FreeDOS > > Hey all, > > In the last FreeDOS get-together we were talking about package groups, > Jerome mentioned that he was moving things around, and I asked about a > SHELLS group which we don't have. Jerome mentioned maybe these types of > programs belong in the APPS group instead. > > They fit the description of the APPS group very well: > Interactive programs and applications that are more than just a > command-line tool > > So my question is: should we move DOG and other Shells to APPS? Maybe some > other utils also fit this description? > > Also on the topic of command interpreters, I noticed that we have SvarCOM > in the Gitlab repository, but not in the installer. It was added in July to > the repo. Is this an oversight or intention? What about 4DOS, should we > ship it as well? It's Open Source sort-of~ish[ > https://4dos.info/sources.htm]... > > --Wolf > > > -- > > > |\_ > | .\---. > / ,__/ > / /Wolf <wolf+...@bergenheim.net[mailto:wolf%2b...@bergenheim.net]>_ > _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing > list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel[https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel] > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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