Re: DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

Bart Oldeman
2002-12-02T00:45:10Z

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> > downloading the latest (1.0.2.1) dosemu from
> > sourceforge and compiling that.
> No, 1.0.2.1 is nearly an year old and is
> currently not supported (hopefully there
> will be no support to it also in the
> future, as supporting 1.0 branch in its
> current state would be a nightmare and
> porting all the fixes to it is nearly
> impossible now).

"unsupported" basically means "seems effectively unmaintained" here.

Neither 1.0.x nor 1.1.x are supported beyond volunteers having time
to look into problems. I support 1.0.x if somebody asks "how do I map a
drive to a Linux directory using DOSEMU 1.0.2.1" and I say "use lredir
like this". In that case I wouldn't say "upgrade first!".

The idea here is that if you have a problem (a DOSEMU bug, not just a
user's question or setup fault) with 1.0.x, it might have been fixed in
the 1.1.x development branch, but those problems have, so far, not been
fixed in the 1.0.x branch.

Bart