Re: [ros-dev] End-of-merge for some components shared with Wine

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Ge

--- Ge van Geldorp <gvg(a)reactos.com> wrote:
>   It's becoming impossible for me to keep some
> components synced with Wine.
>  For some components, we have too many changes in our tree which were not
>  submitted to Wine. I've tried to submit some of "our" changes, but was
>  unable to answer questions asked by the Wine people, since I simply do not
>  have enough knowledge of those particular DLLs. The original (ReactOS)
>  authors of the changes are not interested or currently unable to answer
>  either.
>  
>  So, the following components are now effectively forked:
>  - tools/widl 
Eric has said he would merge this at some point.

>   - lib/dinput 
There were some changes that needed to go on in the winehq side last time a checked, for a
Xorg
extension to handle the mouse that BBrox and others were working on. We can resync this
later.

>   - lib/setupapi 
I will keep working on this. The issue we have is that Alexandre does not want to accept
certain
patches unless we can prove a real world application depends on certain behavior.
Private/Undocumented APIs won't be synced.

>   - lib/winmm 
Is the diff for winmm really that large?

Thanks
Steven


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