From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 8 19:05:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01131 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 19:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01125; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 19:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id VAA12967; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 21:05:11 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199708090205.VAA12967@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: status of BSDi DOS emulator thing? In-Reply-To: <199708090154.SAA00473@hub.freebsd.org> from "alexandr@ren.eecis.udel.edu" at "Aug 8, 97 06:54:22 pm" To: "eecis.udel.edu":alexandr@ren.eecis.udel.edu Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 21:05:11 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, dburr@poboxes.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : > > : The DOS-emulator crew has finished the job, and I am in the process of > : committing it to -current. It should be fully committed by the next > : day. It will probably turn into a really really interesting thing when > : everyone gets ahold of it :-). > > Will it only work under -current, or are there any plans to fold it into > the -release code-base as well? > It might, but the risk to the codebase will need to be evaluated. There are likely individuals with stronger opinions them mine that we should probably not. In the worst case, the doscmd team has produced a version that runs under 2.2.X, and you might want to apply the patches yourself. I believe that 2.2.X is pretty much feature-frozen. In reality, it is really the release engineer's decision... I don't have the time to do it for quite a while though. John