Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 56113: [HIVESYS] - Merge back many old changes from i386 to AMD64

[Cameron Gutman]

On Mar 11, 2012, at 7:13 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Author: cgutman
> Date: Sun Mar 11 11:13:15 2012
> New Revision: 56113
>
> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=56113&view=rev
> Log:
> [HIVESYS]
> Merge back many old changes from i386 to AMD64

The way we do hive INFs is very far from ideal right now. I propose to create a base INF that is used to construct each hive and turning the hivexxx_arch.inf into an additional section like livecd.inf is now. This way every architecture inherits a base configuration and turning on/off services or changing certain settings can be done in the arch-specific inf. This would eliminate having to do these merge backs and also prevent tons of breakages and lost time in the future from having to merge the same change 3+ times.

Regards,
Cameron

[Timo Kreuzer]

Am 11.03.2012 12:17, schrieb Cameron Gutman:
> The way we do hive INFs is very far from ideal right now. I propose to create a base INF that is used to construct each hive and turning the hivexxx_arch.inf into an additional section like livecd.inf is now. This way every architecture inherits a base configuration and turning on/off services or changing certain settings can be done in the arch-specific inf. This would eliminate having to do these merge backs and also prevent tons of breakages and lost time in the future from having to merge the same change 3+ times.
>
> Regards,
> Cameron

I agree.
An alternative would be preprocessing the inf.

Timo

[Colin Finck]

Timo Kreuzer [e-mail] wrote:
> An alternative would be preprocessing the inf.

It's probably even the easiest implementable, yet most flexible way to 
handle our INFs.

But as soon as somebody takes the initiative on this, please also 
convert all UTF-16 files to UTF-8 and later convert them back during the 
building process. This finally makes them diff'able in SVN.
It's a long-time idea by Matthias and the necessary tool for this is 
already in our tree (/reactos/tools/utf16le). It just needs somebody to 
write a few lines of CMake code.

- Colin