Re: [ros-dev] Undocumented APIs

[David Eckert]

I agree highly with Alex, I honestly think that ReactOS has lost
complete focus on what their intentions were originally, I think it is
time to go into discussion regarding the re-evaluation of the projects
primary goals are, this is not good if it is left unmanaged, but on
the other hand, it  still would be kind of neat for someone to
"re-invent the wheel" Windows NT wouldn't it? ;)
--
-David W. Eckert

[James Tabor]

Hi!
David Eckert wrote:
>   I agree highly with Alex, I honestly think that
> ReactOS has lost
>  complete focus on what their intentions were originally, I think it is
>  time to go into discussion regarding the re-evaluation of the projects
>  primary goals are, this is not good if it is left unmanaged, but on
>  the other hand, it  still would be kind of neat for someone to
>  "re-invent the wheel" Windows NT wouldn't it? ;)
>  --
>  -David W. Eckert 
Yes we are going off mission and out of focus. I hope my
prediction is not
going to be true.
James

[Steven Edwards]

On 1/31/06, James Tabor
<jimtabor(a)adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> wrote:
>   Yes we are going off mission and out of focus. I hope
> my prediction is not
>  going to be true. 
The goal has always been a windows like OS. The question is how
windows like do we have to be? Should we not used BSD tcp/ip? Or Linux
USB? What about Mesa3d for our OpenGL implementation? If someone can
prove a good case for the internals needing to be 100% the same then
sure we can do it. I'll give you a good example, look at the cache
manager. There is no doubt in my mind we need to follow the spec as
closely as possible in that case however can the same be case be made
for the scheduler? Seeing as even Linux can run Windows applications
and handling Windows threading requirements I don't know if such a
case can be made with it. In every case all we are saying once again
1. Show a Document describing what you want to implement
and or
2. Show a app/driver needing the API
--
Steven Edwards - ReactOS and Wine developer
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