Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS versioning

[Pierre Schweitzer]

I'm not sure you realize what you're praising.

Links & junctions are not supported on FAT, they require NTFS.

On 03/10/2015 12:37 PM, Huw Campbell wrote:
>   SxS uses hard links, not symlinks.
>  Seems like the way to go too, as we're already hitting the boundary with common
> controls and it's how windows does version compatibly.
>  Huw
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: "Ged Murphy" <gedmurphy.maillists(a)gmail.com>
>  Sent: ‎10/‎03/‎2015 10:27 PM
>  To: "'ReactOS Development List'" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS versioning
>  
>  It might also be useful to employ some form of heuristics as UAC does. Things like file
> name detection, string table detection, marked processes via user defined requests or a
> hash database, etc. Perhaps even scanning the imports (although this is harder to manage
> due to people using GetProcAddress to detect OS version)
>  
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Timo Kreuzer
>  Sent: 07 March 2015 12:44
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: [ros-dev] ReactOS versioning
>  
>  
>  1. We need a method to specify which application should be run in which environment. We
> should probably use the same mechanism that is used on Windows. Compatibility information
> is stored in a registry key HKCU\Software\Microsodt\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\... The trick is to make this easy / transparent for the
> user. A right-click -> properties -> compatibility approach should for now probably
> be the easiest thing, 
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.