Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/04/09/11:22:14
I think DJ might be on to something. I'm a CS major at my university
and since I got here I've been trying to open eyes of the people in
the CS department to Free/Open Software like DJGPP/CygWin/MinGW/NASM
(the latter for the intro x86 ASM class). Hopefully today I'll
make a break through as I am giving a workshop on simple VGA/Mode 0x13
programming in DJGPP. I plan to release a mini-version of DJGPP
similar to EZ-GCC (or was it EZ-DJGPP) so that people can compile
my code. I already have a distributions done (been lazy to put it on
the net) and it fits on to 3 floppies (GCC, GAS, LD, & DJDEV only, no
docs). I think if we could provide something like DJ suggested to
universities and high schools in a "presentable form" like what RH,
SuSE, Debian, Slackware have done, these institutions would grab
the distribution. If someone starts such distribution, I'd be willing
to make it into a Zip Disk distribution as well as a floppy disk
distribution. DJ and other have also mentioned that the suggested
ideas would take the DJGPP community to steps that make it a similar
environment to Linux which to me is a GREAT thing. Imagine writing
games independent of DOS or Linux using RHIDE and Allegro!!! The
compiler/library implements the necessary methods for the X API for
the given OS and you dont have to worry portability problems. What
most programmers want is a one standard that they work with and
extend like Linux. If we give DJGPP programmers that same options
as Linux programmers (I'm NOT saying implement Linux on DOS), we
have a common, standard, GPL/OpenSource, API and ANSI/POSIX LibC
that does most things needed by the programmer. Another I want to
toss onto the BBQ is porting Cygnus's Java compiler from the EGCS
distribution. Given enough time, we should be able to atleast write
Java console apps in DJGPP.
Louis
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:
> [SNIP DJ's GREAT IDEA ABOUT DISTRIBUTION!!!]
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