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Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Ivan
--- Quote from: ivan on March 22, 2025, 03:26:23 am ---Rant !!
I may be a lone voice in this discussion bur what I would like to see is the removal of the RPM/YUM abomination from our Operating System. We had/have a very good method of installing programs - warpin which does not require OS/2 to pretend to be linux which it is not. Those that want to play with linux would be better installing linux and using that.
Rant over.
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You came late to the rant. I have a dislike for the FHS (what is where the files are located) and not rpm/yum as it is. WarpIn can not replace RPM as it is right now. The good thing about RPM is having a server (or group of server) with the packages and help to manage the packages dependencies. When I started to use RPM/YUM I felt like I lost control of where the files are being located in my HDD, at the end I get used to that because it was not that dramatic for me to be "file control freak", I guess the Linux people got the same anxiety at first.
Sadly there is no man power to avoid FHS. It was explained that porting Linux software to OS/2, plus adding the complexity of relocating all the files in a different way it is too much work.
Regards
Martin Iturbide:
Hi
--- Quote from: David McKenna on March 22, 2025, 12:56:56 am --- Have a possibly dumb question, not being a programmer: is it possible to produce OS/2 executables with GCC inside of Linux? If so, would make compiling large apps easier, no?
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I don't have the full knowledge here. But this article is interesting:
- Project: 2ine. You have no idea how much effort went into getting this stupid white square on the screen (Jan 21, 2018)
It is a long story but he used an old gcc to compile a little OS/2 software that will run in Linux (interpretated) and in OS/2. But it was very experimental.
Regards
Dave Yeo:
I think that David means pure cross compiling, building OS/2 exe's and dll's on Linux.
This is already possible on Linux using OpenWatcom, with a bit of work, it wouldn't be hard to compile Doodles screensaver on Linux as an example. Cmd build scripts would need to be rebuilt using sh scripts, not sure about the Rexx scripts but Linux supports Rexx or at worst ignore them (no bldlevel info), Warpin wouldn't work for packaging, otherwise quite possible.
Same could be done with GCC, at least in theory. People regularly build Windows programs on Linux.
Andi B.:
--- Quote from: ivan on March 22, 2025, 03:26:23 am ---Rant !!
I may be a lone voice in this discussion bur what I would like to see is the removal of the RPM/YUM abomination from our Operating System. We had/have a very good method of installing programs - warpin which does not require OS/2 to pretend to be linux which it is not. Those that want to play with linux would be better installing linux and using that.
Rant over.
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If you only read the recent post here about ApacheOpenOffice and understand the problem behind, then you will see very fast how wrong your statement above is. Or do you wanna say we should completely avoid all these ported software?
Martin Iturbide:
Hello
For the moment we have in no specific order:
1) Modern web browser
2) Wifi Driver.
3) Memory issues
4) IPv6.
And side discussion:
1) There is no need to worry because we have virtualization.
2) The dislike of RPM/YUM or FHS.
Regards
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