Correct me if I'm wrong (Alex?), but isn't the biggest difference between kernel 5.2 and 6.x that 6.x is *paging the kernel* ? (A huge design mistake if you ask me. One I bet will bite MS on the a**. If the kernel gets too fat it needs liposuction, not paging.)
IMHO, adding new APIs, while keeping the (non-paging) kernel seems ideal.
Best Regards // Neo
On 2016-05-19 05.43, ros-dev-request@reactos.org wrote:
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support From: Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca Date: 2016-05-19 02.33
To: ReactOS Development List ros-dev@reactos.org
I don't believe I said 'let's add random exports to our DLLs'. In fact, in your old thread, I was totally FOR your idea, I even wrote that the only sane way of doing it is with the app compat work.
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Timo Kreuzertimo.kreuzer@web.de wrote:
We have been discussing this before and I wonder that Alex is not heavily opposing the idea of randomly adding new exports to our user mode DLLs. It is a well known fact that applications check for existance of exports to decide how to behave, so ... not going to go over this again.
To addess this issue I suggested to implement a compatibility layer. And there was a detailed discussion about that on this mailing list. https://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2015-March/017216.html
Please take your time to read the whole thread again so we can avoid wasting time, talking about the same things again.
Timo