RE: [ros-dev] Undocumented APIs

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On
>  Behalf Of Thomas Weidenmueller
>  Sent: 31. januar 2006 12:20
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Undocumented APIs
>  
>  Casper Hornstrup wrote:
> >   Wine has a similar policy, but in general we
> > should try to fix issues
> >  upstream. If we can't do that, then so be it. Forking source code isn't
> >  usually worth it. 
>  
>  The problem I see is that wine has a lot less undocumented stuff by
>  definition. They don't need to implement the lower levels that we do
>  need. Unfortunately those lower levels are much less thoroughly
>  documented, but IMO we should at least get the publicly known interfaces
>  right. I'm not talking about internal things.
>  
>  - Thomas 
Why implement something which is not used? From a survival POV, ReactOS is
better off doing what is needed instead of doing what is not needed.

Casper