DOS ain't dead

Oops, almost forgot to ask: what's the deal with this lately?

* http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/fpc/ (2.2.0-pre3, Sep. 28)
* ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.2.0a/go32v2/ (2.2.0a, Oct. 2 w/ MAKEDOS.ZIP from Nov. 7)
* ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/i386-go32v2/ (2.0.5 ??)

The latter is what I'm mostly curious about:

File: fpc-2.0.5dos.zip    10036 KB        11/25/2007      1:32:00 AM

> Oops, almost forgot to ask: what's the deal with this lately?
>
> * http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/fpc/ (2.2.0-pre3, Sep. 28)
> * ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.2.0a/go32v2/ (2.2.0a, Oct. 2
> w/ MAKEDOS.ZIP from Nov. 7)
> * ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/i386-go32v2/ (2.0.5 ??)

At FreeDOS sites:
fpc-2.2.0-doc-pdf.zip - 7,042 KB - 2007-09-10 22:53:00
fpc-2.2.0.source.zip - 23,419 KB - 2007-09-10 22:53:00
fpcbuild-2.2.0.zip - 38,874 KB - 2007-09-10 22:54:00

Mirror list at two locations:
US - http://short.stop.home.att.net/lists/freepas.htm
UK - http://uk.geocities.com/short_stop_uk/lists/freepas.htm

> Oops, almost forgot to ask: what's the deal with this lately?

No progress. Pierre Muller didn't reply to my mails. Good bye, FPC@DOS.

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> No progress. Pierre Muller didn't reply to my mails. Good bye, FPC@DOS.
>

He's probably just busy. Most people seem to have lots of projects going on at once. I'm highly doubtful that they'd drop the DOS port.