RFC: doscmd removal

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:23:07AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > > > I plan to remove doscmd from the base system for the sole reason that it
> > > > is no longer useful. Any objections?
> > > 
> > > Why would you want to remove it? It is still very usefull. I use it
> > > regularly. The only drawback currently is that the Makefile is set
> > > up in such a way that it does not pick up X during a "make world",
> > > so after a "make world" you have to build it again to pick up X.
> > > Built without X it is less usefull.
> > 
> > This is exactly the reason why the source tree is not the right
> > place for doscmd.
> 
> That might be and is the reason I asked for the reasoning behind it. One
> reason why keeping it in the tree is good, is because it help pick API
> changes that break it. Out in ports it might take a while to pick that
> up and then it will be the poor user's problem. :-/ Doscmd use parts of
> the kernel that isn't used by many other programs.

Port compile problems are typically picked up on bento within a week,
and often within 24 hours.

Kris
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