Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/29/09:02:38
Here are my wishes:
1) An install tool. Text mode and friendly (with menues and windows). It
should incorporate the Zip picker, some notes from the FAQ and DJVERIFY.
2) A Free DOS, cooperating with the FreeDOS project or just doing one. That's
really important. Specially with M$ trying to kill DOS. We need a DOS with
sources.
3) Dynamic linking support. That isn't high priority but is interesting.
Additionally could save some memory in situations like it: RHIDE calls gcc
and it calls cc1plus. Here 3 copies of a lot of libc functions are loaded in
RAM. It could reduce the size of the files on disk too. Drawback: it makes
the programs slower. I debuged inside the Linux dll support code (to find a
bug in my port of TVision to Linux, it was a bug in gcc 2.7.2.3) and isn't a
very complex stuff to do.
4) Threads support. I know we can't switch when we are in the OS, but if
point (2) is done we can have an special DOS with less PM<->RM switchs and
less latency in the "non switchable" region. After all you can't switch a
task when Linux is executing the kernel.
5) Network support. We really need it, currently the ports of CVS and many
tools (Perl!) lacks network support and that's a very bad thing.
I think all of this will make djgpp stronger and remain in your current
field. I disagree with people wanting to incorporate Windows support, let it
for add-ons like RSX, at most help to integrate RSX easier, not more. Also: I
think we need a good GUI, for sure, but that's a project outside djgpp's
core. Porting XFree86 is an interesting thing, but I doubt that's what we
need as GUI, XFree isn't fast, is very complicated, is huge, etc. We need a
GUI that supports messages/events and windowing that's all. Having it we can
help to V and other cross platform libraries to support a target:
DOS/djgpp/GUI.
SET
P.S. Of course Eli is right about supporting the last spec, but I think that
is something that the project currently have as objetive.
------------------------------------ 0 --------------------------------
Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft
or
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/
Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer)
Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT usa DOT net set AT computer DOT org
ICQ: 2951574
Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero
Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA
TE: +(5411) 4759 0013
- Raw text -