Bug#144042: Possible solution for bug#144042?
Hello,
After browsing the list of wanted packages, I found this one. A lot
has happened since the original request. In testting for example there
is now a package dosemu-freedos (see
http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/dosemu-freedos).
However the mentioned package doesn't resolve point 2 of the original
request. The dosemu-freedos package is also in contrib because it
depends on non-free software. Or is it? In the build.txt of the
FreeDOS kernel I found the following:
"The recommended compiler and assembler at the time of writing
(2004/01/31)
are OpenWatcom 1.2 and NASM 0.98.38."
OpenWatcom (http://www.openwatcom.org/about/info_content.html) is a
project to free the commercial Watcom compiler. It's license is IMHO
free. The Nasm package is already available as a package and it's
license is LGPL.
So should the title be changed to someting like "RFP: OpenWatcom -- a
compiler needed to build FreeDOS" ? Or may be we should close this
request and open a new one for the OpenWatcom? I don't see the right
procedure, but I hope this post clarifies some things.
Regards,
Henk van de Kamer
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