Ros-dev March 2009

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Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] General speech held by V?\195?\173ctor Mart?\195?\173nez (vicmarcal) and Javier Fernand?\195?\169z (elhoir) at Imagin?\195?\161tica 2009
by Colin Finck 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

> trunk/press-media/presentations/Imaginatica 2009/reactos_imaginatica.pptx Could we rather save such files as PPT? As far as I know, there is currently no loss in information if you save a file as PPT instead of PPTX in PowerPoint 2007. Furthermore, this makes it possible to open and edit such files with older PowerPoint versions or OpenOffice. Additionally, neither the PPTX import nor the ODP export (looking at the other Imaginatica presentation) of OpenOffice seem to work as reliable as the PPT import yet. Best regards, Colin

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Google Summer of Code
by Aleksey Bragin 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I'd like to let you know our application has not been accepted into Google Summer of Code, for the third time in a row. I attached an (autogenerated) reply, which encourages us to reapply for future instances of the program. I would not find a better way to express sarcasm than asking us to reapply in future. Amongst accepted organizations there are: WinLibre - a distribution of opensource software for Windows platform. Battle for Wesnoth - a free turn based strategy game. Umit - a frontend for a network scanner (one of their GSoC ideas is to create a "Umit Assistant" which would look like a Clippit - the animated assistant that features Microsoft Office). TurboGears - a web framework written in Python. Thousand Parsec - a bunch of games based on a common framework for building turn based space empire building games. Systers: Woman in computing - a community of women in computing. For some strange reason the founding person is "Robin". Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence - non-profit org founded to develop safe artificial intelligence software and to raise awareness of dangers of AI technologies. I just stated a few examples. I highly value those projects, however I just can't understand that yet another framework in python, or a game engine for a turnbased strategies, or a collection of FOSS software for Windows with a package manager (which we already have, and which could have been improved), or an institution which believes that AI takes over the world and tries to stop that are way more important than supporting an organization whose product would be of use for millions of people, and would create a real alternative operating system compatible with the vast majority of existing software and hardware. Our friendly OS project Haiku gets accepted every year, so being an OS is not a problem. Wine is certainly accepted every year from the beginning, and this year is not an exception. So it's definately not a problem of "legal fear" of Microsoft. What is the problem then? I leave it to you to decide what's the problem. However, as for me, I see Google Summer of Code is nothing close to supporting free software world, but rather an expensive way of advertising. I want to hope I am wrong. With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin ReactOS Foundation President. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <socghop.noreply(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 AM Subject: Thank you for your application To: xxx(a)reactos.org Hi Aleksey Bragin, Thank you for submitting "ReactOS" organization application to Google Summer of Code 2009. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept your organization's application at this time. We received many more applications for the program than we are able to accommodate, and we would encourage you to reapply for future instances of the program. Best regards, Google Open Source Programs

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Wine syncing process
by Aleksey Bragin 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hello, I'd like to improve the existing situation we have with Wine syncing. Right now, we have a group of people, occasionally doing Wine syncs, and that group of people included me some time ago too. However, date was never really specified, and syncing happens "when someone wants to sync", "before releasing", or when something is fixed in Wine and we import that code. How it should happen (in my opinion). All non-forked DLLs, tools and programs must be synced after each Wine minor release. This is going to be manual process, so we need a person to organize this process, and a few people who could participate in doing actual work (syncers). What this "team" leader / responsible person should do: * Share the work (modules) between syncers. * Leave hard-to-sync modules to experienced developers and himself. * Ensure all syncers are instructed to do basic testing (running our "golden" list of apps - FireFox, AbiWord, mIRC, and testing ole32/ rpcrt4/widl with a real app which uses OLE mechanism) before committing the work. * Be aware about syncing dependencies (e.g. when syncing widl, it makes sense to sync rpcrt4 simulteneously) * Be aware about problematic syncs (like icmp.dll sync, which possibly introduces memory corruption, and which is still not fixed in Wine). * Keep a log of what has been synced, what has not, keep a note of all problems. If that proves to work good, this team may be officially announced as "wine syncing team". There are already at least two successfully working teams this way: Bugzilla maintaining (with Amine being the maintainer, and my point of contact when I want to complain or ask about something), and Testing team (with Olaf being often my point of contact, and organizing and doing all the hard work of regress testing, testing apps, drivers, real hardware testing and getting results submitted). Also, I think those two teams cooperate the best. I wish we could expand this idea to the Wine syncing team, and get it to work that smoothly too, and that cooperative too. With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.

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Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jmorlan] 40289: Make cmd able to (sort of) work without a console.
by Steven Edwards 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi! 2009/3/29 <jmorlan(a)svn.reactos.org>: > Author: jmorlan > Date: Sun Mar 29 23:17:45 2009 > New Revision: 40289 > > URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=40289&view=rev > Log: > Make cmd able to (sort of) work without a console. Thanks! I am now able to run telnetd and connect in to my ReactOS VM. Certain applications such as ctm don't seem to like running without a console due to making calls to GetConsoleMode. I am going to test telnetd on Windows with Windows cmd.exe and ReactOS cmd.exe to compare behavior of these applications. Its possible cmd.exe returns some bogus console mode or something when running without a console. Thanks -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

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examiner.com spam
by Aleksey Bragin 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I unsubscribed email feedback(a)examiner.com, since it sends out everyone an email "thank you for your feedback". Sorry for inconvinience... People should think more when subscribing with such stupid autorepliers. WBR, Aleksey Bragin.

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R40285
by Dmitry Gorbachev 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi! Aleksey Bragin wrote: > Now each line of a debug log is printed synchronously DPRINT and DPRINT1 still call DbgPrint twice...

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Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jmorlan] 40280: Make command parsing in DoCommand/Execute more compatible with Windows
by Steven Edwards 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi! On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:13 AM, <jmorlan(a)svn.reactos.org> wrote: > Author: jmorlan > Date: Sun Mar 29 09:13:35 2009 > New Revision: 40280 Would you mind taking a look at a cmd.exe bug Wax found? (I can't log in to bugzilla to file a bug report but I can quickly describe the issue) For some reason the CreateProcess call in in telnetd that spawns cmd.exe causes it to generate the error INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE. This issue does not happen with ReactOS telnetd on windows if you use Windows cmd.exe or if you use another console application on ReactOS such as ping.exe so we have isolated it to a cmd.exe problem. Telnetd is located in rosapps/sysutils/applications/telnetd Thanks! -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

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Where is MMVAD struct?
by Jun Koi 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hi, I searched for everywhere in the source code to see the definition of the MMVAD struct, but it is nowhere. So I suppose that we have something else (with different name) for that? If so, where is it? Thanks, Jun

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rosapps
by Dmitry Chapyshev 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi. I suggest to divide rosapps on two parts: 1) Components which are present in Windows (rosapps) 2) 3rd party components (3rdapps) In rosapps it is necessary to place all components without which the system can normally work (calc, hh, winhlp32, charmap, games and etc) In 3rdapps components which are not present in Windows (downloader, imagesoft and etc) will take places Such placing of components will allow to reduce compilation time as you can not compile not the modules necessary to you (rosapps and/or 3rdapps) Please tell your opinion on my proposition. -- WBR, Dmitry Chapyshev

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Re : Re : Where is MMVAD struct?
by Sylvain Petreolle 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

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