From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Aug 9 16:03:41 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] trunk-09082010 file structure / content From: Alan Hourihane To: Miro Kropacek Cc: MiNT Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:02:12 +0100 Message-ID: <1281384132.4401.93.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:45 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote: > Next: > > - remove *.hrd from xaaes folder(s), they have no meaning to user > > - remove (possibly move to drivers as proposed) all modules -- they > can be source of serious problems on various machines (scc/mfp on > aranym etc) > > - make archive as ZIP as proposed by Jo > > - make whole archive usable out of the box (except that kernel PRGs), > i.e. when I rename MINT030.PRX -> MINT030.PRG, I want to have booted > working system. Now it fall backs into freemint shell, not very user > friendly (GEM=ROM is the least we can do, possibly better > INIT=xaloader?) > > - disable memory protection by default? I know, very questionable, but > it helps when you run default package on Aranym-JIT (strange errors) + > might be confusing for new users at start ("my application doesn't > work correctly anymore" -> bad FreeMiNT, delete) Again, having a "make install" that works in the FreeMiNT CVS solves all of the above. Do you want that task to help out ? Alan.