Re: vDos 2015.11.01 or 2016.06.01?

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I'm immensely grateful Wengier has undertaken to continue working with
the previous version.


Yet it seems to me that the overriding philosophical goal should
be a single system which will work as well or better than DOS itself. It
seems unnecessarily messy to require multiple versions of an OS emulator
for different apps--even though there is no reason why practically
speaking that should not work.


Still, I appreciate beyond _expression_ the efforts of these dedicated
coders. And, after all, perhaps this path we are taking, which seems like
a metaphorical Brexit, is as regards coding burdens, the most economical.
If that is the case, then it is clearly the best way.


At 05/06/2016 21:47, you wrote:

> So from Jos' recent response in
> the vDos forum it is clear that he is reluctant to support the XyWrite
> community with the recent vDos 2016.06.01 version. As we know vDos-lfn
> build 2016.05.30 (or earlier) was based on the previous vDos 2015.11.01
> version so it works pretty well with XyWrite and Nota Bene. On the other
> hand, Jos' vDos 2016.06.01 introduces new incompatibilities with
> XyWrite/Nota Bene, and as a result vDos-lfn builds 2016.06.0x that are
> based on it also have certain problems with XyWrite and some other
> programs. Since Jos is reluctant to address these issues in his new
> version, I am now wondering if the future builds of vDos-lfn should be
> based on vDos 2015.11.01 or vDos 2016.06.01? Thanks for your
> opinions.
>
> Wengier