I knew about this post-factum, so let's gather opinions.
Advantage: It's like NT does, less hacks, possible removal of libsupp stuff in ntoskrnl, freeldr, ntdll, etc (which I actually thought would be done in the same commit).
Disadvantage: To be proper, you need a bootloader RTL too, otherwise RTL will still contain "necessitating hacks" aka libsupp stuff. This is gonna make at least 3x time RTL compilation. (thankfully / sadly we don't test it directly).
WBR, Aleksey.
On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Alex Ionescu wrote:
Well, you just removed the one thing ReactOS did different from NT and that I thought was really revolutionary and innovative, because it saves on compile time. It's funny, because I've been trying to sell this as a better approach to building RTL (It's built at least 4 times in the real NT tree, I think -- loader, user-mode tools/testing, kernel, user-mode).
Best regards, Alex Ionescu