Hi Arkady, Lucho, nice cooperation if you ask me. Arkady writes the patches and Lucho, hopefully, publishes: - patches - patched sources - precompiled binaries
I think all three categories are needed. Patches, if people want to merge them into the main branch (main? Tom? Confused...) eventually. Sources, if people want to compile an Arkady-style kernel themselves, and possibly submit patches for it. Binaries, if people want to USE an Arkady-optimized kernel. My recommendation: Ship the next FreeDOS beta with both a "stable 2035" kernel and an Arkady/...-optimized one. But let people decide which one to use. Arkady has written so many patches in short time, and most kernel list readers will have been overwhelmed by that. In addition, the patches often reduce readability of code (optimization seems to be more important), so my personal experience is "Wow, so many patches? If it helps, why not, but I REALLY hope that it does not introduce new bugs. Anyway, I have no time to read all patches and check WHETHER they introduce new bugs."... In addition, question to Lucho: Is it acceptable to use ZIP for the binaries and TGZ for the patches? Those formats are more commonly used. The patch download site should also contain some text which tells me WHAT is changed by WHICH patch, and patches should be split into small chunks so that people are free to decide which patch to apply and which not. If you can only get 5 patches in diff file, chances that the patch will be reviewed and merged into the "official stable" FreeDOS kernel drop dramatically. (Please forward to Lucho...) Arkady, keep up the work - although I am not sure how good work it is ;-)). At least you are almost the only one who is working on the code right now. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
