Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.
On 06/11/2020 17:55, David Heidelberg wrote:
Hello Ben,
I asked about possibility of changing name and the final reply is [1].
You managed to quote me before I wrote it myself here :) I will
also add the first sentence from my post:
> No, we are not open for changing the project name *at this time*. We
> might change the name at some point, but only once we'll have a really
> good reason to do so, and pros of the name change will overweight the
> cons of doing so.
We are already packaged by several OSes, universally using
dosbox-staging name [1]. We also have our own downstreams already
and even the first commercial user.
[1]: https://repology.org/project/dosbox-staging/versions
Changing the name would require redesigning logo and icon and
make it much more difficult to merge with other forks, at no
particular benefits to us or our users.
The project started as a staging repo for vanilla DOSBox and we
tried to cooperate with upstream for 6 months (or several years,
if we count the efforts of patch maintainers who were waiting for
their functionalities to be merged and are now maintainers in our
repo or at least finally landed their change).
This attempt at collaboration failed, but despite of that, I hope
the DOSBox team will eventually be open for merging the projects,
as it seems they are not interested in doing another major release
again (0.74 was released 10 years ago (!)). We carefully maintain
our Git history to make it feasible. We also keep the project
features allowing dosbox-staging to be a drop-in replacement.
We will probably change the name when it will be prudent to do so,
e.g. when merging with other DOSBox fork, or if we decide to break
the backwards compatibility with the vanilla DOSBox. I don't see this
happening at least for another year, we still have too long backlog
of community patches to investigate and merge/redesign.
--
| ← Ceci n'est pas une pipe
Patryk Obara
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