Re: LZ: Shells

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Re: LZ: Shells

Jeffrey S. Sharp, Crystal Baird, and Mark Sharp wrote:
Michael Wyman wrote:
>
> I was
> thinking about setting up an IRC time to meet... About making sure that
> all shells have a few common grounds

OS-85, SuperNova, ZShell, CShell, OShell, whatever-shell, blah blah
blah.  What we have here is a *failure* *to* *communicate*.  IRC chat
sessions would be great.  But what we really need is to make a
standard.

Here's an idea.  Let's imagine a new and wonderful shell.  Call it, say,
OpenZ.  Here's how everything would work:

(1) You have *one* shell.  No one will write another shell.

(2) You have *one* standard for shell-writing on the 85.  Call it, say,
The OpenZ Standard.

(3) The OpenZ shell will include *all* options set forth in the
standard.  This includes APD, contrast, an Expnader SF filesystem,
function keys, interrupt piggybacking routines, everything.

(4) OpenZ is distributed as _commented_source_code_.  Also included in
the distribution packet will be an assembler and an install program
which will automate *everything*.

(5) The commented source code will have preprocessor directives that
divide OpenZ into several modular parts.

(6) At install time, the user selects which components he wants.

(7) The install routine will, using equates to activate the preprocessor
directives, assemble a shell with only the components the user selected.

(8) The installer will transfer the shell to the calc.

(9) Anybody can add to or modify the shell as long as it stays
backwards-compatible.  It's an open standard.  When someone does this,
he or she should release an updated standard.  A version-control method
would be nice here.

Tell me, am I thinking about another flight sim???

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 So, when are you starting work on this?  ;-) 
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