[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