8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
5:36 p.m.
Steven Edwards wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Dmitry Gorbachev
<d.g.gorbachev(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Useful for the developer world. If I know that
'running in ReactOS'
means that the program is
Win32 strict, I'll favour developing on ROS, as then I will make better
code.
Another option would be instead of just failing, sending out a warning
on stderr whenever a
compatibility hack is applied.
I believe that people wish "perfect
world" API as an optional feature, not
that they really want to broke compatibility.
We discussed something like this years ago. It would be nice if every
sort of legacy API that has any sort of hacks for brokeness as part of
its implementation, could be isolated and a simple recompile with
something like a #define NO_LEGACY_WIN32 so you could recompile
without the hacks. Not really that useful for the real world as you
need the backward compatibility..