On Mon, 10 May 2004, [UTF-8] Aitor SantamarÃa Merino wrote:

Hallo,

> This is actually not true. The reference compiler for the FreeDOS
> project is, if I remember correcly, BC3.0.

Hm, wasn't it Turbo C 3.0 ;-)

> But the purpose of this mail is to encourage to change this spec, at
> least to admit OW (add, if not replace BC3) as reference compiler too,
> if license allows that (I mean is true open source and there are no
> other woes). I am not quite used to OW, but it seems like a pretty good
> compiler, seems to be open source and be under development (which is

Actually, I would support this change in the Manifesto. Due to the facts
already mentioned often: Open, free, active. The decission made for TC3.0
was at a time no compiler met the requirements, now OW does.

Although, I would also keep the doing of the past to not press people to
have to port project too heavily to OpenWatcom. However, it would be good
to have a fd-doc for Newbies about OW in action. I had put together would
was posted here into: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/ow.html

Bye,

-- 

Steffen Kaiser


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