Re: [ros-dev] rosapps

[Aleksey Bragin]

I'll explain his idea.

The idea he would likes to propose is to separate the mess inside  
rosapps, and provide a clear division of what goes where:
1. trunk/reactos contains ONLY stuff which is vital for the system to  
work minimally. Including explorer, GUI, and things like that, but  
without calculator, solitaire, or anything like that.
2. rosapps - components similar to those present in Windows, but not  
vital for the boot process.
3. addons - components, which are additional to the base set of apps  
and drivers Windows ships with.

Comments are welcome on his idea.

My own comment is that the idea seems to recall what we originally  
been discussing a year or more ago, but stopped caring as more devs  
got more powerful PCs. There is no strict solution on what goes where  
now, actually that's why his idea started - he proposed to move  
winver and winhlp back to trunk, and I was arguing over it.


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.


On Mar 8, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Zachary Gorden wrote:

>   Huh?  The rosapps module isn't included by default
> in the build to  
>  begin with, so how does it decrease build time?  Also, the  
>  applications in there are supposed to be providing equivalent  
>  functionality found in Windows.  Downloader is an exception, but  
>  what else is?
>
>  On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Dmitry Chapyshev  
>  <lentind(a)yandex.ru> wrote:
>  Hi.
>
>  I suggest to divide rosapps on two parts:
>
>  1) Components which are present in Windows (rosapps)
>  2) 3rd party components (3rdapps)
>
>  In rosapps it is necessary to place all components without which the
>  system can normally work (calc, hh, winhlp32, charmap, games and etc)
>
>  In 3rdapps components which are not present in Windows (downloader,
>  imagesoft and etc) will take places
>
>  Such placing of components will allow to reduce compilation time as  
>  you
>  can not compile not the modules necessary to you (rosapps and/or  
>  3rdapps)
>
>  Please tell your opinion on my proposition.
>
>  --
>  WBR,
>  Dmitry Chapyshev
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