Hi All, As Jim mentioned, FDRepo v3 has been deployed to the Official Download and Update Repositories on IBIBLIO.
Mostly, it has been a successful transition from the previous version. There was a strange hiccup that prevented using the deployment script that then required manually installing the new version. I say “weird” because the server did not support the “pushd” command under a bash shell. Very strange. Also, the HTTPD server will not pass non-english UTF-8 characters in the HTML files. It is not an issue with FDRepo, the pages or the web browser. It is the HTTPD server. After a few tests, if these characters are converted to HTML entities like “ℬ" or "ឦ” then the equivalent characters will display correctly in a modern browser. So for now, the official repos are limited to English. Once, I add an option to perform this mapping on servers which require it and create the mapping files, we will turn back on the additional translations. Also for many years (and prior to me managing the repos), the repositories have provided an ISO image that contains the latest version of the packages in that repository. FDRepo is currently configured to only provide an ISO for the 1.4 and latest repositories. Those ISO images are very large and obviously require a large amount of bandwidth to provide. Do we really need to keep supplying them? To me, it seems like a big waste of resources. Resources we are graciously provided for free. :-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
