Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 23:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT dilu DOT ml DOT org>
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To: OpenDOS Developer Mailing List <opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DOS utilities (was Re: A few FS notions)
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On Sat, 17 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> > Before putting together a distribution with sources, we should take care
> > to make the thing compile with free tools...
> 
> Absolutely, however in order to do so, we need to get the sources
> no?  And who wants to download ALL of them when they'll only be
> fiddling with bits and pieces?  I call for a "developer"
> distribution that is in multiple packages.  What does everyone
> else think?

All that is available now is the kernel and COMMAND.COM... We *could*
separate those into different packages, but I think those who will be
converting those to make them compile with free tools will probably take
*everything*... And I think it would be better to have them all compile
with free tools, THEN make a "packaged" distribution (correctly separated
and all, both binaries and sources in a RPM-like (but not RPM!) manner)...

Pierre Phaneuf

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