I agree is nice to have separated paths for base system and apps. This is the good old way to make things. The most of the dos apps are self contained without dependencies. One problem I remember is to have path to all the apps, sometimes become bigger than the available environment variable space. A new different solution may be create a bat file for each app, or a text database with descriptive name and path to any executable. this is useful to generate automated launch menu.
2009/4/5, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net>: > On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:11, Jim Hall wrote: >> I think Mateusz is suggesting separating the programs from the "base" >> list (in ...\BIN) from those that are in "devel" or "util" (in >> ...\SBIN). In this case, FORMAT would show up in ...\BIN. > > Yes, it was indeed my idea... > >> Imagine all the (new?) packages that should really be in "util" that >> might be put in ...\BIN format because the developer/contributor wants >> them to be in "base" (even though the program might not replicate any >> original functionality of MSDOS.) > > I guess you're right here, Jim ;-) > We should look at FreeDOS as an independant system, not just a MSDOS > replacement... > >> It's better to keep with the original spec on this, use the ...\BIN >> for all binaries. > > Okay, let's not change a wining team then :) > > How about installing 3rd party applications? I searched through FreeDOS > technotes, but couldn't find anything related to packages installation > paths... > FreeDOS v1.0 was installing all third-party applications in the FreeDOS > directory, which is IMHO a very bad thing. Many people wants to keep theirs > applications in a separate path, for eg. on a different hard drive. Having a > environement variable pointing to "the place where all my games/programs > have to go" would definitely resolve this issue. That's something the > FreeDOS installer should ask for at the installation (Where do you want to > put FreeDOS files? Where do you want to put any non-freedos applications?). > > However, it's not a trivial thing to do, as we would need a way to tell > "this is a FreeDOS package, while this one is 3rd party one". Nothing like > that is ready today. Obviously, it would require some additional > developpement on FDPKG, too... > > Best regards, > Mateusz Viste > -- > You'll find my public OpenPGP key at > http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key > -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Fax: +58-(212)-2410828 Skype: marcoachury www.geocities.com/marcoachury ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
