Re: [ros-dev] Release 0.2.6

[Karim Liman-Tinguiri]

Well,

It wouldn't be that much amount of work since PPP is already above the
hardware/driver layer: it's a protocol. It therefore means we can
simply pick the source code for a Linux ppp-enabled dialer such as
wvdial and adapt it for ReactOS.

After that, all that remains is to finish art yerkers' serial library
in order to enable usage of at least non-winmodems (for example serial
port modems) and little touchups (such as writing modem initialization
scripts etc until the control is passed to ppp).

The big work (this can be deffered from the 0.3 release) will be to
implement WinModem driver support which is definitely compulsory for
ReactOS since most windows users that connect through an internal
modem have a winmodem.


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:24:41 -0500, Richard Campbell
<eek2121(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>   If we were to do that 0.3 would be delayed WELL into
> next year.  A RAS
>  compatible PPP implementation would be ALOT of work.
>  
>  Karim Liman-Tinguiri wrote:
>  
> >  Greetings everyone,
> >
> > I totally agree with Murphy and I believe we should launch another
> > 0.2.x release before the next 0.3 release. I think before we can
> > launch a 0.3 release, we need to have a solid support for Win32
> > drivers: networking doesn't limit to LAN-Ethernet, but it also
> > includes PPP and modem connection (analogic and broadband).
> >
> > With the growing amounts of winmodems, Win32 driver support must
> > definitely be implemented before claiming "networking support": this
> > is one of the weaker points of Linux: driver compatibility (though
> > lots of efforts are being made by manufacturers and hackers), many
> > drivers are still only available on the windows platform. It'd be much
> > cheaper, programming-effort wise, to natively support windows driver
> > than try to port them to ReactOS, (I'm not even mentionning the case
> > of closed-source drivers and undocumented hardware).
> >
> > As is stated in the status page of the library "Driver Support At the
> > moment, work to support 3rd party drivers (Microsoft Windows
> > compatible) is restricted. The focus is more on only basic drivers
> > that are written in conjunction with the various kernel facilities." ;
> > there's not much 3rd party Microsft Driver support. It'd definitely
> > have to be implemented before 0.3 release.
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:09:07 -0000, Murphy,  Ged (Bolton)
> > <MurphyG(a)cmpbatteries.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >  Agreed.
> > >
> > > It'll be good for publicity too.
> > > Regular minor releases are better than infrequent major releases.
> > >
> > > Gedi.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason Filby [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: 23 February 2005 17:57
> > > To: ReactOS Development List
> > > Subject: [ros-dev] Release 0.2.6
> > >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > The consensus on IRC appears to be that we need another 0.2.x release.
> > > The reason is that 0.3 is our "network" release and there's still some
> > > work to do to justify this.
> > >
> > > Everyone agree?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jason
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