Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG16 V0.99.8254b released

[victoria c. <sp...@jo...>]

the latest version is found on the gits

i need help testing the stuff you mentioned no error levels yet

https://git.gay/sparky4/fdnpkg16/raw/branch/main/fdnpkg16.zip


On 5/30/26 6:56 AM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On May 28, 2026, at 7:23 PM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-user 
>> <fre...@li...> wrote:
>>
>> https://git.gay/sparky4/fdnpkg16/releases/download/0.99.8254b/fdnpkg16.zip
>>
>> https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/fdnpkg16/
>>
>>
>> get it here or use fdnpkg16.exe to update to it
>>
>>
>> change log:
>>
>>
>> * 0.99.8254b: fixed a bug with downloading a file not existing in 
>> repository
>> * added a feature when downloading a package it will ask if the user 
>> wants to override the existing file on disk with same name.
>> * the documented features not in help are in the help now.
>
> I had a few minutes to test out the new/improved features.
>
> It has improved a lot over previous versions.
>
> I did not notice any major issues with the new changes.
>
> However, there were some things which I think could improve user 
> experience.
>
> 1) When using /DL (download package) or /DU (download updates), it 
> first downloads the package. Then, if a file already exists with the 
> same name, it prompts to Overwrite. I think it would be better to 
> check for the conflicting file name before downloading. That way, if 
> the user does not want to overwrite the local file, they do not waste 
> time downloading it. Sometimes, these files are pretty big and can 
> take several minutes for a download to complete.
>
> 2) It would be nice to provide the option to “Abort”, when a 
> conflicting file name already exists.
>
> 3) When downloading a package or available updates, it shows the 
> message “An update was found… Update in progress”. It should really 
> say “Download in progress” or since the next line says “Downloading…”, 
> that “Update in progress” could simply be removed when just downloading.
>
> 4) After downloading a package and wanting to update it, the command 
> to do this could be a little confusing to the end user. For example, 
> the was an update to DOSLFN. After it was downloaded, a user may thing 
> running “fdnpkg16 update doslfn.zip” would update it. But, that will 
> issue an error message that “DOSLFN.ZIP is not installed". So, they 
> may then try to run “fdnpkg16 install doslfn.zip” which shows the 
> error “DOSLFN is already installed! You may want to use ‘update’ action.”
> This may confuse a user who does not know about the RI option to 
> reinstall a package.
>
> 5) After downloading all of the updates, it would be nice be able to 
> update them all at once. While they could be done one at a time, if it 
> has been a while since the packages were updated, there can be a lot 
> of them. For example, this machine had 13 updates. It can be tedious 
> to do one at a time. Using something like “fdnpkg16 ri *.zip” would be 
> awesome when there are a couple dozen packages to (re)install or update.
>
> :-)
>
>
>
>
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