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 Kreuzer <timo.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

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