Ros-dev March 2013

ros-dev@reactos.org

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22 discussions

by Pierre Schweitzer

Hi, the Linux builder RosBE has been upgraded to latest 2.1. It keeps using ninja for builds. With my best regards, -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org> System Administrator ReactOS Foundation

12 years

Blacklisted Tests in Testman

by victor martinez

Hi guyz! I've been reviewing our current Blacklisted suites at Testman. A lot of those unstable testsuites now are reliable, maybe because ReactOS stability has increased or better Winetests. The following blacklisted suites in the past should go into whitelist: Gdi32:SetMapMode. Now scores: 51-0 Gdi32:SetSysColors. Now scores: 44-0 Gdiplus:graphicspath. Now scores: 434-32 Gdiplus:region. Now scores: 803-6 Kernel32:pipe. Now scores: 33895-124 user32:trackmouseevent. Now scores: 177-12 wininet:urlcache. Now scores: 186-16 The following suites look reliable but from time to time they score different.So they should be kept as Blacklisted: user32:msg user32:win In the other hand two new candidates should go into Blacklisted: msxml3:domdoc ntdll:info Not bad, 7 to whitelist, 2 almost reliable and just 2 into Blacklist. My proposal is to update the lists and check during the following days that these new changes are reliable. If testsuites are a sign of stability, I should say..ReactOS is really stable. Bugged as always.But stable. :)

12 years, 2 months

Status Meeting (March 2013)

by Aleksey Bragin

Hello, Let me invite you to the monthly status meeting taking place last Thursday of this month, 28th of March, 19:00 UTC. And that's tomorrow! The meeting will be at irc://dev.reactos.org (Port 6667, no SSL) in the channel #meeting, or as Pierre says. Note that the IRC service will only be started shortly before the meeting. Your participation passwords will be emailed to you shortly before the meeting starts, and they are going to be different once again as they are not stored in any database. Hopefully it's not much of inconvenience. If someone still is not getting passwords sent before a meeting - please email Colin or Pierre before the meeting started to get one. The agenda will be posted shortly before the meeting, suggestions are welcome (send them to my email as usual). Regards , Aleksey Bragin

12 years, 2 months

Fwd: Do NOT attempt to translate Book pages

by Zachary Gorden

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:47 AM Subject: Do NOT attempt to translate Book pages To: ReactOS General List <ros-general(a)reactos.org>, ReactOS Web List < ros-web(a)reactos.org> The development guide is using Drupal "Books" as a way of organizing content. Drupal's localization has a major hole wherein books cannot be translated. As such, do NOT attempt to translate the development guide or any other content that uses books.

12 years, 2 months

dev.reactos.org downtime

by Pierre Schweitzer

Hi, due to a maintenance on the server running them, the following services, Jira & Fisheye, will be down on the 20th of March 2013, starting at 9h30 CET. This means that the URLs: http://jira.reactos.org & http://code.reactos.org will be unreachable during the meantime. The server (and its services) should be back online before midday. We are sorry for the caused inconvenience. With my best regards, -- Pierre Schweitzer<pierre at reactos.org> System Administrator ReactOS Foundation

12 years, 2 months

Website translation problem

by Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO

Hello everybody ! About two or three weeks ago I translated in French the "ReactOS Downloads" page of our new website, and I was very surprised (and very angry, too) yesterday to see that it was turned back into English. According to the history it was done 4 days ago. Do you know what happened there, and how can this be reverted, if possible ? Thanks in advance, Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO

12 years, 2 months

Yet another case of required Viista APIs...

by Timo Kreuzer

Hey, Amine informed me about yet another case of Vista APIs being used in wine code. This problem is going to increase and we need a solution, the sooner the better. My plan to address this is to use lower layer DLLs that contain the actual implementations, while the upper layer DLLs (kernel32, advapi32, msvcrt*) are just forwarders to the lower layer DLLs. The lower layer DLLs can contain whatever we want and wine dlls can link to them, while applications continue to see version consistent exports of the standard winapi dlls. For the exports of kernel32 and advapi32, a possible way to organize this is to follow MS API reorganisation on Win7, where these APIs are separated into the API-MS-Win-core-* etc dlls. In fact on Windows the implementation still stays in either Kernel32 or kernelbase and the API-MS-* dlls are just "virtual" dlls. How these APIs are organized can be seen here: http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/windows_7_kernel_architecture_changes.html While from a logical perspective it might make sense to organize our implementations physically into these API DLLs, it comes with an overhead, since a bunch of extra dlls would need to be loaded and initialized on every process creation. We can avoid that by organizing our code in static libraries and merge them all together to 2 core dlls. The division like on Windows 7: kernelbase + kernel32 + advapi32, doesn't work for us, since kernel32 and advapi32 would still need to contain Vista+ APIs. Therefore I suggest to divide it into kernelbase.dll and kernelsup.dll, the latter containing the code that remains in kernel32 and advapi32 on Windows. Additional advantage: For the various CRT modules this can be done as well and would provide the benefit of having a single full featured CRT, which we can use from our own code, while still providing a (limited) version specific MSVCRT. And all other MSVCR* can forward to that core DLL, so we only need to load CRT code once. We would have another benefit, when we decide to implement Windows-Version specific API layers. These can be implemented as different versions of kernel32.dll etc. which export whatever they do on a specific Windows Version and contain version specific hacks, if required. These Version specific DLLs would be placed into subfolders on system32, having the loader use them, whenever a link/pif/registry setting asks for a specific (non-default) version. If someone has doubts and fears this could cause compatibility issues: Yes it could, but those only apply to extremely special system tools, which wouldn't work on Windows 7 either. Since we simply cannot be 100% compatible (unless we copy the MS binaries and call them ours), we need to make a compromise at certain points. We really have other problems than some crazy XP/2003 only system tools not working. The benefits far outweight the problems. Otherwise MS would never have fiddled with their DLLs. If someone prefers a different system of organization, I'd be happy to hear about it. If there are no objections, I will create a branch and work on that together with Amine. Thanks, Timo

12 years, 2 months

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-builds] Trunk_x86_GCCLin Release: build failed

by Pierre Schweitzer

Fix from r58530 deployed on release build slave. Next build will use it. On 17/03/2013 00:31, buildbot(a)reactos.org wrote: > The Buildbot has detected a failed build on builder Trunk_x86_GCCLin Release while building ReactOS. > Full details are available at: > http://build.reactos.org/builders/Trunk_x86_GCCLin%20Release/builds/384 > > Buildbot URL: http://build.reactos.org/ > > Buildslave for this Build: Linux_AMD64_1B > > Build Reason: The web-page 'force build' button was pressed by 'spetreolle': > > Build Source Stamp: 58530 > Blamelist: > > BUILD FAILED: failed compile_3 > > sincerely, > -The Buildbot > > -- Pierre Schweitzer<pierre at reactos.org> System Administrator ReactOS Foundation

12 years, 2 months

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-builds] Trunk_x86_GCCLin Release: build failed

by Pierre Schweitzer

Hi, Just for the record, release build is broken. With my best regards, On 16/03/2013 13:52, buildbot(a)reactos.org wrote: > The Buildbot has detected a failed build on builder Trunk_x86_GCCLin Release while building ReactOS. > Full details are available at: > http://build.reactos.org/builders/Trunk_x86_GCCLin%20Release/builds/383 > > Buildbot URL: http://build.reactos.org/ > > Buildslave for this Build: Linux_AMD64_1B > > Build Reason: The Periodic scheduler named 'release' triggered this build > Build Source Stamp: HEAD > Blamelist: > > BUILD FAILED: failed compile_3 > > sincerely, > -The Buildbot > > -- Pierre Schweitzer<pierre at reactos.org> System Administrator ReactOS Foundation

12 years, 2 months

Error 500 while attempting to diff testman results

by Samuel Serapión

I get an error 500 when attempting to use the result diff mechanism see http://reactos.org/sites/all/modules/reactos/testman/diff.php?id1=4131230&i… example This is an excellent utility in testman, please don't take it away. I would also like to take this oportunity to thank everyone involved in the hard work of keeping ReactOS and related services alive, functioning properly and implementing new features!

12 years, 2 months

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Ros-dev March 2013