Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS August and September Meeting Minutes

[Alex Ionescu]

I have yet to see drivers/hardware that requires Vista+.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw(a)home.nl> wrote:

>   Op 3-10-2011 19:01, Zachary Gorden schreef:
>
>
>   kernel target.  With these considerations, the project has decided to
> >   set both the user and kernel targets to Windows
> > 2003.  Dependency on
> >  Wine for many user mode libraries actually complicates this, as Wine has
> >  been adding Vista and later APIs without proper segregation and the
> >  developers will need to figure out how to deal with this in the long run.
> >  
>  Limiting things to 2003 might work, with the exception of DirectX, hardware
>  drivers and silly stuff like UEFI and GPT
>  [
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/windows/hardware/gg463525.**aspx<http:…]x>].
>
>  In other words you'll get in trouble as people want to test ReactOS against
>  their own (modern) hardware system (due to drivers focusing on Vista/7/8),
>  and see if ReactOS can run their games.
>
>  Nonetheless, good thing you lot are able to make up your mind and sticking
>  to a argumented majority decision.
>
>  thanks for the minutes.
>
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