It might be worth putting a doc together listing the kernel parts we’re missing, the areas which need changes, and the areas which can be left as-is.

 

 

From: Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Jansen
Sent: 12 May 2016 18:14
To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev@reactos.org>
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support

 

 

For the features where this is possible without kernel support,

there is a mechanism in the pipeline that makes this possible: 'apphelp'

Currently I am still working on the base layer,

but when that is progressed a bit more we could integrate it more tightly in the Ldr,

so that it uses the target platform to apply automatic fixes (shims).

 

Having said that, it might be worth to upgrade parts of the kernel (only where it makes sense) to NT6 already,

without exposing that to applications.

Especially in new parts, as it would mean that something is written for NT5 now, and first thing we do next is upgrade it to NT6.

 

 

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666@gmail.com> wrote:

Quite a few 'userland' features of NT6 requires kernel support to
function properly. If we go in, it would be, do NT6 kernel and slowly
bring the userland up to NT6. But we don't have a fully working NT5
kernel yet, so....

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:34 AM, David Quintana (gigaherz)
<gigaherz@gmail.com> wrote:
> If we do NT6, we may want to have latest NT6 instead of trying to stick to
> an older one and having the same deprecation issue in a couple years?
>
> Also, what about the "idea" of keeping the majority of the kernel and large
> part of the usermode NT5, but having compatibility profiles that
> implement/emulate NT6 API functions using the existing NT5 feature set? Is
> that unrealistic?
>
> On 12 May 2016 at 14:39, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey@reactos.org> wrote:
>>
>> Which again brings in the topic of updating the version we are targeting.
>> Windows 7 would be a minimum target these days, IMO.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aleksey Bragin
>>
>> On 12.05.2016 14:04, Ged Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah it's nonsense. No one drops support for ReactOS, they drop support
>>> for
>>> older versions of Windows which likely includes reactos too.
>>> If they were adding in ReactOS specific code, they were doing it wrong.
>>>
>>> The bigger issue here is that a lot of apps are starting to drop support
>>> for
>>> XP and recommend a minimum of Win7. If we don't do something about our
>>> insistence on sticking with 2k3, we'll soon be in a position where no
>>> browsers will run on ros, as well as a whole other list of apps.
>>>
>>> Ged.
>>>
>>
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