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On 2008-07-29, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On July 29, 2008, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > > I'm not 100% certain but I think it effects pure DOS exes as well.
> > > Its as if
> > > noone ever tested the C only mode with DOS (and I mean pure C, with
> > > all of
> > > the asm disabled including various drivers that depend on it, and
> > > all of the
> > > fancy allegro calling conventions..)
> >
> > Are we commited to DOS support for 4.4?
>
> As long as it isn't going to take too long. most of the lib should work fine.
> All that should be needed is some patches to fix stuff people have forgotten
> along the way. And theres a post or two on a.cc stating that there are people
> interested in DOS support.. Not sure its enough, but one (reasonable) person
> speaking out usually means theres several that didn't.
It should not be allowed to hold up 4.4.0. Once the Mac changes are in,
we should release 4.4.0-rc1 and then 4.4.0 as soon as possible.
The door would still be open for anyone who actually cares to fix the
DOS ports for 4.4.1, or whatever. Otherwise, there's always 4.2.2.
Peter