Hi all
Loading up the OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 Setup no longer works; the initial
progress bar completes and then nothing happens. I'm sure I've seen
this bug before! Any help welcome.
Thanks
Jason
--- James Tabor <jimtabor(a)adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> wrote:
> We don't have this yet? Is there a plan to include this in our
> code tree?
According to Thomas and Dmitry's tests its not correct so we are waiting to
see if someone comes up with a better implementation.
Thanks
Steven
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Hi Steven,
Steven Edwards wrote:
> Changelog:
> Christoph von Wittich <Christoph(a)ApiViewer.de>
> Implement GetComboBoxInfo
>
>
>
We don't have this yet? Is there a plan to include this in our
code tree?
Looks great!
James
ReactOS will not build on Windows with the latest version of Nasm (
0.98.39 ), because at least some public releases of that version ( I
just downloaded the official from sourceforge.net ), do not support long
file names, and we have a long file name in PSEH.
We can just shorten that asm's file name, but we could also configure
the build system to reject that version.
I don't feel like dealing with it, so I thought I would just send a
head's up here :)
--- Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
> This goes beyond debug information. This is reproduceable behaviour that
> probably any driver developper out there knows. Checked builds are
> builds recommended for testing your driver for bugs. If you call that
> function with a Queue Object, you WILL see that assert line-by-line on
> your screen. From that point on, one should stich his eyes out for
> having seen it, and shoot himself for knowing this behaviour?
So fix a ReactOS driver to match this behavior and work under Windows and
then you will have justification for making related changes in the kernel.
> Notwithstanding that they cannot sue the project, and that they would
> not sue you. This was a public comment to a friend... why would they sue
> Steven when Alex said what he said? And yes, I cannot wait to be sued...
> I can see the headlines -- Driver Developer sued for being aware of
> Windows Assertion --. I hope they also go after Mark Russinovich for
> having used the checked build to generate a tree of the Windows Source
> code!!
The last time I looked Mr Russinovich was not try to make a replacement
for Windows but rather provide more information people wanting to use
Windows.
> If you aren't, then why am I always the one being targeted with such
> comments. There are functions in ROS which are almost copies of their
> binary versions. There are structures in ROS which look like clones of
> the Windows ones (undocumented ones). There is functionality that was
> directly reversed engineered so that it would be compatible.
Yes we have reverse engineered quite a bit but the question is what methods
are being used to reverse certain behavior. We cannot help but be compatible
with the structures in Windows and take any means needed to be compatible.
> Yet, nobody says a word; everyone goes after Alex for having a
> conversation with a friend and mentionning a reproducible fact in every
> driver developer's life -- you do not KeWaitXxx on a Queue.
> Probably as much as jumping on a guy who has written some of the highest
> quality and most useful code in the OS for the fact he used public
> information during an argument.
You stated the other day there were regressions that were only found by
developing test cases. You would have a lot more good will from developers
on this project if you committed test cases for some of the patches you develop
and commit them to rosapps/tests or write a dummy driver to show the behavior
rather than than pointing to checked builds.
Thanks
Steven
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Hi,
--- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Just put a trademark on the name but allow it to be used on
> derivations on the circumstance that it clearly shows that it is not
> _the_ ReactOS.
I have looked in to this a bit with the legal council I have on retainer as part of the ReactOS
Foundation work. I think it is around $250 to file in a state and around $1000 to file the federal
paperwork. I will call the lawyer this week and get numbers and a timeframe on what it would take
to make it happen.
Thanks
Steven
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--- Alex IoIonescuioionucuivideotrona> wrote:
> This climate of paranoia is getting to my nerves.
You could at least try to be civil in your discussion. Some of us have spent more than a few years
on this project and have a right to be a little paranoid about if our lives work might be put in
to danger.
> As for Steven... WINE, ROS, and any other compatibility product out there is not 100% clean
> room. It has never been, will never be, cannot be. Especially if we consider debug information
> as being "dirty". Reminds me of people freaking out when I added functions that were in the IFS
> -- you'd hope people would've grown up by now--.
Still it depends on the source of the information. We have discussed in private my views on using
the debug information. I will publicly state I think the law is ambiguous at best and the debug
information should be a valid source given Microsoft position of being a monopoly as found by
Anti-trust proceedings. That being said a court might not agree with me so any behavior must be 1.
Reproduceable or 2. Documented.
> I could make a list of over 25 parts of ReactOS Which are not 100% clean. But I won't, because
> that would tarnish our image. I would appreciate if you'd stop tarnishing mine and making
> accusations.
I am not trying to trash your image. I am simply mentioning the truth that everyone already knows
but could be deadly to this project and others in a kangaroo court in the US. When your source of
information comes from documentation or a third part program exhibiting certain behavior then
there is not a legal question as to if a reimplementation is a original work. If you are basing
your implementation of a feature only on the debug information then clearly, at least in my mind
it runs the danger being found a derived work and everytime you do so it at the very least
tarnishes ReactOS's image.
Thanks
Steven
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--- Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
> What the fsck are you implying.
Its hard to claim our implementation is "clean room" if you are basing your implementation on
debug information rather than reverse enginered behavior. I am not opposed to observing the
implementation via debug information and then writting tests to match behavior but there is a fine
line...
Thanks
Steven
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What if winlogon.exe is run by csrss.exe and not by smss.exe?
A winlogon process, in its own desktop, is needed for each Win32 session.
If we make csrss.exe multiuser, it must create session 0 (console) or
die and therefore run winlogon in it.
This change shouldn't have any effect on compatibility with Windows NT.
smss will assume only csrss is critical.
ea