Hi everybody.
It's been a long time that I follow this project, even if I was pretty
quiet, and I think it is now time to make my own contribution.
Some of you might remind some attempts to work on kernel32 winetests.,
and it turned out that I needed something more motivational. I found
that reactX is an abandoned field, and so I think that it would be a
real challenge to get things working. I have already some patches, which
get the ddraw initialization a bit further that where it manages to go
in trunk.
Regards
Jérôme (aka zefklop)
PS: I'd like to talk with you about that on IRC, but unfortunately I am
behind proxy which refuses it....
And now you have added zero to this discussion. Just because Alex questions
someone's basic skills doesn't mean that noobs are working on critical
components. For some, this is an entirely academic endeavor, and Alex's
feedback is essential criticisim.
Blah, blah, blah,
WD
(Sent from my G1)
On Sep 26, 2009 2:29 PM, <betam4x(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sorry, had to reply to this one. I may be way off base here since the
contents of this email are based solely upon alex's reply.
People that don't understand the basics of programming are working on system
components? I understand that people want to help, but allowing this does
more harm than good. What happened to all of the talent anyway?
In my opinion, someone that does nor understand C should not be tasked with
working on the hardware abstraction layer.
This was not meant to be an insult or attack in any way, shape, or form to
anyone involved with this thread.
Posted from my crackberry.
Regards,
Richard Campbell
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> Date:
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:06:4...
Hi,
I just wanted to let everyone know that Wineconf 2009 is going to be
held in Holland on Nov 6-8th. I am of course planning on attending and
Fireball said that he might as well. If any ReactOS developers are
interested in going and don't have the resources, speak up and perhaps
some of the users and advocates that follow ReactOS development would
be willing to contribute $5 or $10 to the Foundation on your behalf.
Information (what little there is currently) is here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineConf2009
The ReactOS foundation Donation page is here
http://www.reactos.org/en/foundation_donate.html
Also while there has been some heated exchanges with Wine and ReactOS
developers in the past, we do get quite a lot in terms of code from
them so if your interested in helping them out, you can donate to the
Wine Development Fund, which will help pay for Wine developers to
attend. The donation link is on the main page of Winehq.org
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
Hello,
I'm back from my vacation which took part in Sweden this time (not
counting a day passing through Finland). I had a pleasure of meeting
Stefan Ginsberg ("Stefan100"), Magnus Olsen ("GreatLord"), Simon and
his wife, and of course Jan Kinander ("JaixBly") who drove some
hundreds kilometers from his city to meet all of us. I met all those
persons for the first time in RL except for Stefan, who I met earlier
this year in Brussels.
After a perfectly guided (mostly by Magnus ;)) tour through the Old
City (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm, we made the first ReactOS discussion
attempt in a very nice cafe at the island where Vasa museum is. We
talked mostly about the history of ReactOS project, how I ended up in
this project, what were the most problematic moments of its life and
development ("Hartmut incident", etc), persons involved in ReactOS at
various points in time. After Jan's parking ticked started expiring
Simon suggested to move into his office to continue the talk.
We logged in to #reactos from the office, under GreatLord's nickname
(it was a very unusual feeling when you type things, hit enter, and
it appears as "<GreatLord> ..."), and we all together discussed
future ways of ReactOS progress, possible commercial usage, possible
support, stability and compatibility as usual, products which could
utilize ReactOS and many many more things.
In the end, we shoot a video introducing all this "conference"
participants, and it actually shows "Magnus in action" for the first
time ever. The video seems rather black, and probably has poor
quality (I haven't transferred it to my PC yet) but it should
definately be interesting. I will edit it and put on youtube asap.
It was really great to meet all of you!
Now, to the actual development part of the email (why it ended up in
ros-dev and not ros-general). After I left, I saw number of commits
significantly decreased, and only some 94 commits were done in my
absence (roughly 6 per day). Quality matters though, not quantity!
It's time to think about stabilizing what has been done and preparing
a new release (without arwinss, if someone wonders).
1. Could someone of the testing team please provide me (here) a list
of regressions (with corresponding bug numbers) introduced with
recent ARMMM and other changes?
2. What is everyone up to right now, what unfinished work you have,
what work you are about to finish, what you want and what you don't
want to go to the next release? No need to write time consuming
paragraphs of course, just provide a very quick overview / status so
I and everyone else has idea what you are doing now and what to expect.
3. What's the most up to date GCC 4.4 status, estimates, problems
(bug # would be enough).
Thanks,
Aleksey Bragin.
Hi, I want to inform about a regression on the XBox which causes freeldr
not being able to load freeldr.ini and such failing to boot ROS. I tried
to track down the regression and was able to find two possible guilty revs:
42263 OK
42526 No build available.
42527 XX
Between 42263 and 42526 is not chnage in freeldr at all, so it has to be
42526 or 42527, both by hpoussin and both have something to do with
loading files. I hope someone can fix it, if you need someone to test
it, just send me a patch and i will try it.
Thx
Daniel Reimer