[ros-dev] Re: msi.dll

[Martin Fuchs]

On 05.12.2004 07:37:10 Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > as we don't want to spam wine-patches with ReactOS hacks but good patches
> > can then be reviewed
>
> Assuming ReactOS and WINE are written correctly, there should never be 
> anything ReactOS requires that WINE doesnt need (or vice versa)

You are assuming a perfect world. But this is not the case.
Just as an example look at shell32.dll:

- Wine uses a special version of the systray code to integrate the
  systray icons into Linux's desktop.
- Wine maintaines some old 16 bit windows-functionality, which we
  don't need in ReactOS.
- Currently there is going on some extensibility work in Wine's shell32
  code to include a browising dialog displaying the Unix file system.

Regards,

Martin