Re: dos is a lost cause !
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jul 02, 2013
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After spending hours of correcting and combining source code. There is no reasonable place to start from, to recreate source that was working.
I am very disappointed to hear this.
Since the original archive no longer exist and no one seems to know how the code was suppose to work.
We have everything except for the binaries. The original archive of source code exists.
I know how the code was suppose to work. If you have any questions, just ask me.
Whoever added the dosfamliy in the source and SLASH stuff in most include files caused an unrecoverable mess.
I don't understand this. If nothing else, you could have just removed the ifdefs entirely...
It appears that there was a big rush to get Euphoria to work on every operating system that exists and not the methodical approach that Rob always took.
It is true that our approach is not identical to Rob's. However, I believe that the reason that the current DOS branch is unrelated.
I now believe that, although we officially supported DOS at that time, the SVN code had in fact been broken with regards to DOS support for a very long time. I think this validates the decision to drop DOS support - the code must have bitrotted for a very long time.
I can not understand how any platform is set or where and what sets it.
Why is this relevant? What are you trying to do here? platform for what? Euphoria itself?
