Re: [AD] Proposed changes for Allegro 5 (6?)

[Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:15:30AM +0100, Javier González wrote:
>
> > > Seriously though, who still uses a pure DOS system today? If you use
> > > Windows, why not use Mingw and make Windows programs? (then port them to
> > > Linux ;)
>
> Dropping support for a specific OS should not be taken as a democratic vote, where
> the majority wins, or we would have only a windows version of Allegro due to the
> monopoly of Mr Gates.


And I agree. However, I'd hate to see DOS being the large boulder attached 
to Allegro. If all the neat stuff can be done from DOS, then you have my 
vote to keep it. Otherwise, it can stay with Allegro 4.


> > I must agree with this... either if we want or not DOS will be totally dead
> > in say from 6 months to 1 year max
>
> People have been saying that since windows 95.


Yes, and with win2k/xp, it's becoming even more of a pain to run DOS 
programs. I'm keeping my win95 partition alive soulely for FenixBlade :)


> Why don't we do the
> following: instead of trying to foresee the future, let's agree that
> DOS will be dropped whenever djgpp is not longer maintained. We can talk
> again about this subject whenever that happens.



If we do'nt drop DOS, then, if ever some feature pops up that Allegro cannot 
(easily) emulate in DOS, could we have a non-portable-to-DOS program? That 
is, we use feature X of modern operating system Y, which can't be done in 
DOS without writting our own OS, then can we still include it in Allegro, 
but make programs built on it not portable to DOS?



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