James Tabor wrote:
Hi! Magnus Olsen wrote:
Then accoring "2. There exists a third party driver/application using the behavior" then we can remove whole pnp, directx, win32k, rpc, network, usb and more. alot of api is undoc or is wrong. WHat we have left no reactos and I agesnt it. alot of manufactor using undoc api in lowlevel and u need implement it right. and I do not like we have vote on it. let us work on how to implement stuff as we have always done.
Wine is starting to fall into this trap too. If this policy goes into place we will have to write up documents for these unknown apis and explain what they do. Eventually we will publish M$ api for them w/o M$ giving it to the EU.
Why is this a bad thing? So, Wine has documentation for many functions (which is in some cases more comprehensive than MSDN). If a Wine developer comes along and uses the documentation and she now produces better code because she has better documentation to work from. If a Win32 developer comes along and uses the documentation then Wine gets free publicity.
The same argument applies for ReactOS.