18 Jan
2011
18 Jan
'11
8:43 p.m.
For my information??
You need to start your sentences a little more politely
Wasn't aware it was that impolite (cf:
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/for-your-information-FYI.html).
So, s/For your information/If I may bring that point to you Sir.
You're talking about testing mappings via the
FsRtl kernel API's,
which isn't important to an end user nor 99% of devs who work on
reactos.
It's a feature you choose to implement with regard to how the control
blocks are handled.
Well... I let you explain to the users that ReactOS will stay at its current state as
important features have been implemented.
Furthermore, I heard some would like to have ReactOS handle NTFS. Without MCBs, it will be
hard. Unless we write our own hackish driver, ofc.
Why is that an "old" point? We've only
recently started discussing it.
Old point was refering to "a point that has been discussed in a previous mail and not
the one I was answering to.
You mean it's useful for you.
Ok. Let's reimplement Windows 2003 without Windows 2003. And next time someone will
say "Oh! ReactOS is bad, they are stealing code from Microsoft, they are reverse
engineering code", we won't be able to answer: "You forget we have a Windows
2003 to perform test".
Some test-based development ~.
And I already often ask Sylvain for tests on Windows 2003 so...
Secondly, anyone who states that we implement a 2k3
kernel is wrong.
Alex used to target 2k3 in the days of his kernel rewrites
but the fact is that most of our kernel is very much NT5.1 based (due
to the similarities) and in many cases totally different than any
of the NT kernels.
As I wrote in my previous mail, we target Windows 2003. But for some obvious reasons (need
for quickly implemented & working code, for example) not all the parts are Windows
NT(5.2) designed. This may explain current driven rewrites...
I'm not sure why you felt the need to be
rude/aggressive, perhaps you
feel threatened in by my question which now appears to be
"Would anyone other than Pierre have any use for a (free) remotely
available copy of 2k3?"
Purpose wasn't to be rude or whatever. Just keep in mind we aren't all English
native-speakers and we may not have the same understanding of that language than yours.
If you really need it, you can probably make a good
case to the
foundation for your own copy.
My point is, is it really worth having this online server just for
your use when it would be better served as an MSVC build slave which
would benefit everyone.
Ok, then. Let's forget about that idea.
Ged said.