Re: [ros-dev] Piles upon piles of regressions

[James Tabor]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
>   Hi,
>  
>  I realize maybe some of you are aware of these, but it seems that we 
>  just keep adding more and more regressions and there hasn't really been 
>  an effort to fix them... We don't have a TC anymore and now the tree is 
>  becoming as bad as before, which just proves the point of how badly this 
>  project needed a TC.
>  
>  I've just booted ROS for the first time in a month and I'm surprised at 
>  the number of new things that have cropped up. The start menu became 
>  huge, the registry is not cleanly dereferenced at shutdown (causing it 
>  to get damaged and that makes freeldr display the "Codepage error"), 
>  dhcp still crashes on first-boot since networking isn't installed, the 
>  16x16 icons look like crap since alphablending was implemented, all 
>  sorts of drivers "fail to load' on startup, RPC displays messages about 
>  "Buffer overflows", umpnpmgr tries to copy invalid drivers, shutdown 
>  still doesn't work on my QEMU,... and this is only what I've noticed 
>  after 2 minutes.
>  
>  Anyways, I don't want to nitpick, just to bring these issues up to 
>  attention in case noobdy is aware of them.
>  
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu 
Hi!
Yes! I know! I thought I was going insane! Does anyone on this list test
anything anymore?

First time I reported it.

http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2005-October/005841.html

Problem went away until r19019, it came back.

Thanks,
James