Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

4th scenario - App is actually "buggy" and doesnt check for any export.
We´re fucked up :P
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Love Nystrom <love.nystrom(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>   Correct me if I'm wrong (Alex?), but isn't the
> biggest difference
>  between kernel 5.2 and 6.x that 6.x is *paging the kernel* ?
>  (A huge design mistake if you ask me. One I bet will bite MS on the a**.
>  If the kernel gets too fat it needs liposuction, not paging.)
>  IMHO, adding new APIs, while keeping the (non-paging) kernel seems ideal.
>  Best Regards
>  // Neo
>  On 2016-05-19 05.43, ros-dev-request(a)reactos.org wrote:
>  Subject:
>  Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support
>  From:
>  Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> <ionucu(a)videotron.ca>
>  Date:
>  2016-05-19 02.33
>  To:
>  ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  I don't believe I said 'let's add random exports to our DLLs'. In
>  fact, in your old thread, I was totally FOR your idea, I even wrote
>  that the only sane way of doing it is with the app compat work.
>  On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de>
> <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de> wrote:
> >   We have been discussing this before and I wonder
> > that Alex is not heavily> opposing the idea of randomly adding new exports to our user
> > mode DLLs. It> is a well known fact that applications check for existance of exports
> > to> decide how to behave, so ... not going to go over this again.>> To addess
> > this issue I suggested to implement a compatibility layer. And> there was a detailed
> > discussion about that on this mailing list.>
> > https://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2015-March/017216.html>> Please take your
> > time to read the whole thread again so we can avoid wasting> time, talking about the
> > same things again.>> Timo 
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