Unfortunately it is not so easy to combine everything inside one
repository. This was considered, but there is a strong incentive to keep
these things separate.
Many software distributions are facing a dilemma on which software to
offer to users and which software had best be avoided. Part of this is
related to whether software provides recipients with all four freedoms
or whether they might restrictions in unexpected moments in case they
want to use the software for specific purposes (commercial) or have a
requirement to modify/distribute it. There are thus reasons for some to
avoid distributing or recommending software that doesn't guarantee there
won't be restrictions, instead seeking to provide only software for
which full freedom is guaranteed.
Therefore care was taken to avoid combining these scripts with DOSEMU2
itself. At this point DOSEMU2 itself and some software that runs in it,
can be handled without restrictions. The software that this script
installs cannot be easily modified as some of the tooling required to
compile it has restrictions. Future developments, either in removing
restrictions from the tooling used or by replacing this tooling may
allow these tools to live more closely together again.
Op 11-04-2021 om 13:47 schreef Jude DaShiell:
after a sudo make install and deleting a few old directories, I ran
dosemu -t and then ran insfdusr. I was told that no user space existed
so exited out of dosemu and went into the
~/builds/install-freedos-master/src directory and ran
freedos-installuserspace.
The downloads from the ibiblio archive happened and were successful.
Next dosemu -t and I find 6 directories on c: tmp was the only directory
earlier and I got a bin directory and doc and help and they're populated
with files.
install-freedos-master ought to go into dosemu with documentation so
things aren't so biforcated in the future.
