Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-28 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, thraex wrote: Finally, I would like to ask a question: if memory serves me well, there was an automatic network detection in FreeDOS 1.2 in VirtualBox. A message beginning with "Good new everyone" announced it. Would it be possible to keep that feature for FreeDOS 1.3? II

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-28 Thread thraex
On 16.08.2021 00:27, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone > > Based on our email list discussion from a few weeks ago, I've captured > the "blocking issues" for FreeDOS 1.3 in a new wiki page: > > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues > > > **Please review this page and let me

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, thanks for the updates. Note that proposing to move packages between base, full and bonus is not "adding" packages though. So we still have the uhdd, udvd2, eltorito, lbacache, fdshield, cdrcache, uide, xfdisk, gcdrom and rdisk category membership topic, as well as some compilers: >> N

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-16 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks for the edits. I've updated the wiki page to move "XMGR and FDXMS" from "Need to have" to "Nice to have." I also added the MODE item you mentioned. I also collected the program updates listed under "Nice to have" into a single item list titled "2. Program updates and bug fixes" so it's clea

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, by looking at the more verbose > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues instead of just the mail summary > * Need to have: (blocking) > > 1. Fixed MBR detection > 2. Updated packages > 3. Fixed Codepage and time separator data errors in COUNTRY.SYS I noticed th

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread Jim Hall
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 6:35 PM wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 5:53 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> >> ... >> 3. Fixed Codepage and time separator data errors in COUNTRY.SYS >> > > > I will publish with updated kernel release, unless a release by itself is > wanted? in which case

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread perditionc
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 5:53 PM Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone > ... > 3. Fixed Codepage and time separator data errors in COUNTRY.SYS > > I will publish with updated kernel release, unless a release by itself is wanted? in which case I can do that too. Jeremy

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread Jerome Shidel
Also, there are a couple settings that need adjusted in the FDNPKG config file. Some packages are installed in the wrong place. For many, it’s just an inconvenience. For some, they get broken when that happens. And… are there any additional changes to be made regarding what packages are live i

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread Jim Hall
Hi Eric On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 4:58 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > * Nice to have: (not blocking) > > > > 1. Improved language and translation support > > > 2. FDAPM ("parse larger ACPI blocks") > > 3. CTMOUSE ("become 8086 compatible") > > 4. NGE NIBBLES ("improve documentation") > > 5. CDROM2 ("add

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome and Jim, > * Nice to have: (not blocking) > > 1. Improved language and translation support > 2. FDAPM ("parse larger ACPI blocks") > 3. CTMOUSE ("become 8086 compatible") > 4. NGE NIBBLES ("improve documentation") > 5. CDROM2 ("add STOP and UPC commands") > 6. CDRCACHE ("remove messa

[Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

2021-08-15 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone Based on our email list discussion from a few weeks ago, I've captured the "blocking issues" for FreeDOS 1.3 in a new wiki page: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues **Please review this page and let me know if anything is wrong. I'm trying to capture consensus