Re: [ros-dev] Need to speak out

[Sir Gallantmon (ニール・ゴンパ)]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Ros Arm <ros.arm(a)reactos.org> wrote:

>   Hello,
>
>  This is the second time that work that someone on the ARM Team has worked
>  on has been mostly reverted without any communication with us, and incorrect
>  changes have been added to parts of our work.
>
>  The Eng function worked on even clearly stated comments such as "Compressed
>  surfaces don't have scanlines!", yet this new patch restores the old
>  incorrect functionality.
>
>  lDelta cannot be anything but != 0 for compressed data such as RLE or
>  JPG/PNG! And creating the DIB should not decompress the bits.
>
>  Please read
>
> http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Development/microsoft.public.developmen…
> example.
>
>  I do not understand how you can believe that "RLE" has a scan-line. I am
>  not a graphics expert by no means, but even I understand this fact: by
>  definition scan-lines in an RLE are dynamic, and a scan-line offset table
>  contains information about that.
>
>  You do not have to take my word for it, as a simple driver test case will
>  also show that Windows does not decompress RLE data or set lDelta to any
>  other value than 0 with an RLE bitmap. You can find more information on RLE
>  at http://www.fileformat.info/mirror/egff/ch09_03.htm.
>
>  If you are wondering why there have not been any commits coming lately,
>  recent actions such as these as the cause.
>
>  -r
>
>  
I've not seen any ARM ninjas on the mailing list recently either. Where is
the communication?