DOS ain't dead - CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z)

CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) (Announce)

posted by marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:13

> > The trouble is that there is no group of heavy users for FPC/Go32v2
> anymore
> > that can validate any of such changes. And the current set IS validated
> by
> > a set of users that used it every day.
>
> Please be aware that this is NOT obvious to people who don't use DOS! It
> will bite someone who is unaware, hence it is NOT something to be ignored
> or else the innocent end user will suffer (or complain or walk away). It
> doesn't matter that there is no DOS maintainer, I'm telling you point blank
> about this for your users' benefit.

IMHO it is useless bitching, since as said there is nobody to pass this on to.

There are a couple of loose end leads like you provide, but nobody that uses it in day to day usage (building up some experience), who is to integrate these.

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Complete thread:

FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 15.10.2010, 23:25 (Announce)
- FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 16.10.2010, 04:28
  - FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 18.10.2010, 20:32
    - FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 18.10.2010, 23:36
      - FPC 2.4.2RC1 -- DJGPP Binutils - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 09:46
        GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 14:27
        GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 22:33
        GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 22:57
        GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 00:35
        GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 20.10.2010, 00:40
        GPL source hosting requirement - marcov, 20.10.2010, 09:47
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 15:47
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 16:36
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 22.10.2010, 05:14
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - DOS386, 23.10.2010, 09:21
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.10.2010, 10:16
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:15
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 15:05
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:23
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:29
        LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 25.11.2010, 11:55
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 25.12.2010, 12:39
        AdvanceZip / BinUtils / CMT Solitaire / DOS DEATH / LZMA - DOS386, 26.12.2010, 08:04
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 00:40
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 05:47
        AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 13:02
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 14:03
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Laaca, 01.01.2011, 15:12
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 16:56
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 17:46
        no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 03.01.2011, 09:44
        BUG - DOS386, 08.03.2011, 14:37
        BUG - FPC 2.5.1 snapshot - Rugxulo, 08.03.2011, 22:40
        BUG - Japheth, 10.03.2011, 12:17
        BUG - Laaca, 10.03.2011, 12:31
        BUG - DOS386, 03.05.2011, 09:48
      - UPX-UCL 3.07 - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 03:44
      - FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 04.11.2010, 09:49
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 08.11.2010, 22:27
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 10.11.2010, 20:38
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Laaca, 11.11.2010, 00:06
        FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2010, 04:03
        FPC 2.4.2 (final) released - Rugxulo, 14.11.2010, 20:11
        "for .. in" - Rugxulo, 24.11.2010, 01:08
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 15.11.2010, 22:36
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:13
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Laaca, 19.11.2010, 11:10
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 14:52
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 13:00
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 14:43
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:21
        CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 16:08
        CWSDPMI r7 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:03