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From: art yerkes Date: 17/04/2007 11:22:56 To: ReactOS Development List Cc: Jason Ward Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Assembly
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:34:54 +0200 "Jason Ward" irnyad@gmail.com wrote:
I am new and am keen on developing ReactOS. I looked through the source of ReactOS, there are only 13 Nasm files. A while ago (2 weeks I think) I mentioned RosAsm, it was shunned a bit though by some of the devs. Anyway, I would prefer to develop in RosAsm rather than Nasm, I know how
you
guys feel about it stealing your name but I prefer it to Nasm. (Syntax is cleaner)
So would it be possible for me to develop in RosAsm for ReactOS? It does run under ReactOS so it's just a case of your acceptance.
Hard feelings aside (and sorry, the tone around here has become somewhat invective recently), we're generally reluctant to take more host software to build reactos.
Not talking of the absurdity of the request, as long as RosAsm could, In no way, be of any use, as an Assembler, for doing what you may use an Assembler for: RosAsm is, exclusively, a development Environment for outputting PEs written entirely in Assembly. Really no relationship with a Multi-Purpose Assembler you could ever use aside any C.
Well, while I am at it, about the previous shocking absurdities:
FYI, RosASM is a non-approved, trademark-violating project that misrepresents itself as a ReactOS-funded/supported utility. ... As an attempt to gain some sort of credibility. The people behind it (betov& co) are well-known and hated among the professional ASM development community (most notably on the ASM newsgroups).
* RosAsm exist since September 1998. I started this Project the very First day I heard of ReactOS. This is to say, I never wrote one single Line for Windows, and I never used Windows any other way, but as A development platform, as long as ReactOS was not usable.
* RosAsm is developed collectively under GPL.
* We are not used to promote our Tool, and would we have intention to Do so, we would certainly not have suggested, with its name, that it was, in any way, devoted to an OS that does not exist, yet. "The Visual Assembler", or whatever such name would have been many Times more appropriated.
* The fact that our Assembler name is "RosAsm" expresses the flat fact That it is devoted to ReactOS. Period. This irritates Alex because he Hates me, and this is OK to me to irritates the very same individual, Who is implying that poor old Harmut was a dirty guy, having done something bad to reactOS, when leaving because of his conduct.
* If ReactOS is a virtually dead Project, because of the topic that all of you seem to carefully avoid and try to hide under the carpet, we (the RosAsm Project), will effectively have serious problems, and not only with its Name. See what I mean Alexey? ("Nothing has been found yet", "these are rumors", and so on...).
:(
Betov.
