Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [tkreuzer] 53399: [VMWINST] Fix amd64 build

[Jérôme Gardou]

Le 04/09/2011 17:29, Bernd Blaauw a écrit :
>   Op 4-9-2011 17:10, Jérôme Gardou schreef:
> >   Le 23/08/2011 10:58, tkreuzer(a)svn.reactos.org a
> > écrit :
> >  What about :
> >  [VMWINST] Get rid of this useless relic.
> >  I mean it's something we have to maintain, it was written for
> >  antediluvian vmware versions, and I see no reason to have such a thing.
> >  I may as well write an application to install specific ATI card drivers,
> >  or intel chipset drivers... 
>  Well you got multiple options:
>  * ensure the VMware installer (MSI) can run properly so people can 
>  install their drivers. Makes VMWINST obsolete.
>  * ensure ReactOS can deal with a directory containing the bare VMware 
>  drivers (requiring 7zip to extract them from VMware 7 ISO).
>  * convert the Linux opensource VMware drivers into NT ones
>  * update this relic tool to finally (also) work with modern VMware ISO 
>  contents structure.
>
>  Nice and all that people can show off Quake2, Furmark etc in 
>  VirtualBox..now prove the same for other virtualisation products and 
>  real hardware graphics cards (Nvidia and AMD/ATI for starters, Intel 
>  graphics if you aim at business desktops).
>
>  Demonstrate equal progress in all used/supported platforms. Show 
>  VMWINST is an obsolete relic by proving VMware drivers can install on 
>  trunk ReactOS, including the added 3D support (OpenGL only I guess, 
>  but good enough for now).
>
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Please, stop asking us to
"port opensource linux drivers into NT ones". 
And also don't answer to this sentence and try to explain us why it 
would be so good for this project.
There's no offence meant, it's just that we don't have interest into it, 
and we lack manpower anyway.

Also, Aleksey noted that he still had use of this, I won't touch it.