Hi Paul, > On Jan 14, 2025, at 4:55 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Trying 1.4-RC1, I see that rcal have the old bugs: link not working. > I believe this is because my fixes are on unstable, and with RC1, we build > from stable again. > > I am a bit unsure if it is up to me to push my changes to stable... or not. >
All “Unstable” were merged into the “Master” or “Main” branch for RC1. I just looked at https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/util/rcal <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/util/rcal> The changes made to it (patch-1) were merged into the master branch. I took a look at the RCAL package and it could use a little restructuring. So, I made a few changes. First to be consistent with other Utilities, I relocated the Executable and Documentation into an RCAL subpath under UTIL. Second, I made changes to the LINK batch file. The LINK batch file is a little odd during package installation. When the FreeDOS installer or FDIMPLES installs packages, the process of installing the package is handled by FDINST. FDINST (or FDNPKG) does not install those batch files directly. Instead, it analyzes them in converts them into COM binary files. This has its good and bad points which I’m not going to go into detail now. Just note that sometimes, that conversion is not desired. This brought about the need for a way to ensure some batch LINK files are installed as-is and are not converted to COM binary files. To accomplish that, when a package contains a BATLINKS directory, the batch files located in that path are installed to the same target directory (C:\FREEDOS\LINKS) without conversion to binary versions. So in a package, LINKS\*.BAT are converted to binary files and BATLINKS\*.BAT are left as batch files. Although this conversion to a binary link should not affect RCAL, I changed it over to BATLINKS anyway. I think it will be good for RC2 now. :-) Jerome
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