Re: [ros-dev] Meeting on Thursday

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

"Edijus" at IRC wants to be voiced for the meeting... he is not subscribed
to this ML, thats why im emailing.... what do u think?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gabriel ilardi
<gabrielilardi(a)hotmail.it>wrote;wrote:

>    Team, may I suggest we create a branch for Andrew?
>  Thanks.
>  Gabriel.
>
> >   Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:42:30 +1000
> >  From: greeniekin(a)gmail.com 
> >   To: ros-dev(a)reactos.org
> >  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Meeting on Thursday
> >
> >  Probably best not to vote on this. As there will be people that don't
> >  understand what I'm trying to do and what the actual consequences and
> >  benefits are. I will just do it the way I see it in my mind, and you
> >  guys can check out the results.
> >  If you do have any interest you can of course contact me on irc or by 
>  email.
> >  
> >  On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Andrew Green <greeniekin(a)gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >   > Actually they can't be merged at the
> > moment. They can be in seperate
> >  > directories on the same cd eg reactos and reactoslive.
> >  > This is how it was done for the dual boot cd's distributed, at that 
> convention.
> >   > The reason why is that usetup deletes
> > smss.exe and replaces it with
> >  > itself, and the livecd requires the original smss.exe
> >  > also those cd's were 200mb+. Currently loading smss.exe is hardcoded
> >  > into ntoskrnl.exe. So ntoskrnl.exe needs to be fixed.
> >  > plus server files like ntoskrnl.exe,ntkrnlmp.exe,hal.exe, etc are
> >  > identical to the livecd ones except are in the reactos folder instead
> >  > of the system32 folder.
> >  >
> >  > Also the reason I'm asking this is because my google summer of code
> >  > project is to be able to install from the livecd.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Zachary Gorden
> >  > <drakekaizer666(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >> We already have the capability to merge the two.  But there's nothing
> >  >> fundamentally broken in having two versions until such time as we can
> >  >> actually install from the liveCD.  Until that happens, I don't see a
> >  >> convincing argument for merging the two, since the ones outlined above 
> seem
> >   >> to boil down to "it might confuse
> > people."
> >  >>
> >  >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de> 
> wrote:
> >   >>>
> >  >>> Am 30.03.2011 10:42, schrieb Aleksey Bragin:
> >  >>>>>
> >  >>>>> Disadvantages
> >  >>>>> -To download an iso to just install will be larger(A compressed
> >  >>>>> version could counter this. Though it's not ideal)
> >  >>>>
> >  >>>> Even additional 10Mb would become 100Mb when regress testing just 10
> >  >>>> revisions. There are many people (myself included) who don't have
>  high-speed
> >   >>>> connection all the time too.
> >  >>>
> >  >>> Although its a valid point, I understood it as we wanted to switch to 
> a
> > > >  > 1st stage gui installer(?)
> > > > > In that case, we would need all the stuff for a livecd anyway.
> > > > > Maybe we should first evaluate how much memory this would really be.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Timo
> > > > >
> > > > >
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