Ros-general March 2004

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BSD-style developing
by Novikov Semyon 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hi, I thing time has come to enter is project some developer's hierarchy. IMHO, BSD style hierarchy is great. Some peoples will be "core team". I thing you know them ;) Some peoples will be "commiters" with write access to cvs repository. Peoples who write some code for project transfer it to commiter, commiter checks that code and if it is good, commit this stuff. Core team will determine general project's policy. What averybody thing about this plan? --- Best Regards tappak

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Re: [ros-general] Project status utility
by Jason Filby 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

I actually prefer what Casper did. It looks at @implemented and @unimplemented tags in source files and compiles a status report from that. It even used Javascript to expand/minimize any area of the tree. But perhaps ideas from this work can be used as well. Cheers Jason Robert K�pferl wrote: > Hi, > I just finished a project status reporting in html perl script. > It is intended to produce kind of report in html based on info-files > which are spread over a repository. > It's output looks like the attached file. > > It's input consists of files. In this case status.txt which are > formatted like that: > -----------------8<------------- > Status: halted > Project: ROS.apps.gugu > Finished: 100% > TODO: there's nothing left > Maintainer: God > ------------------ > > These files all are read, put together, computed and written as > HTML-file. > > I wrote that for a status page on the project homepage and hope it is > of use and gets installed. > > However there is surely improovement. > for example I am poor at HTML. Now it is a <ul> with tables inside. I > think it would be nicer if it were with clickable [+]es. Maybe someone > can post me a template. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > * > *Projectpath:* ROS > *Finished:* > 45.25% > *Subprojects:* 4 > > o > *Projectpath:* apps > *Finished:* > 100% > *Subprojects:* 1 > > + > *Project:* ROS.apps.gugu > *Finished:* > 100 % > *Status:* halted > *Maintainer:* God > *TODO:* there's nothing left > > o > *Projectpath:* p2 > *Finished:* > 24% > *Subprojects:* 2 > > + > *Project:* ROS.p2.dd > *Finished:* > 34% > *Status:* > *Maintainer:* Seppel > *TODO:* work out the source code and clean all bugs. > > + > *Project:* ROS.p2.5 > *Finished:* > 14% > *Status:* > *Maintainer:* Seppel > *TODO:* work out the source code and clean all bugs. > > o > *Projectpath:* xx > *Finished:* > 33% > *Subprojects:* 1 > > + > *Projectpath:* apps > *Finished:* > 33% > *Subprojects:* 1 > > # > *Projectpath:* gugu > *Finished:* > 33% > *Subprojects:* 1 > > * > *Projectpath:* profet > *Finished:* > 33% > *Subprojects:* 1 > > o > *Project:* ROS.xx.apps.gugu.profet.winamp > *Finished:* > 33% > *Status:* > *Maintainer:* Gustel > *TODO:* work oUt the source code and clean > all bugs. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >ros-general mailing list >ros-general(a)reactos.com >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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DOS subsystem??
by Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

I did ask this on the ReactOS forum, but I thought I'd ask on the mailing list as well :) How would I go about implementing a DOS subsystem? I used to use DOS for all my programming, even when Windows 95 and 98 were around. I used to mess with software interrupts (had a copy of Ralf Brown's interrupt list) to do things like read raw data from floppy disks etc. I understand that Windows NT protects the hardware from direct access from non-kernel mode applications/drivers. How is this achieved? What prevents an application from simply executing an OUT or IN opcode? And what happens if an application attempts to? I assume x86 CPUs have some form of mode... Protected mode?... that allows this kind of protection. I also assume you can use normal DOS interrupts from a cmd.exe session in Windows. How does Windows use software interrupts? As when an IRQ is triggered, it causes the CPU to execute a software interrupt, what's there to stop usermode applications from stealing the system timer interrupt handler and thus break the kernel scheduling? But basically, what I'd like to know is where I'd start for creating a DOS subsystem? Where do I start? -Andrew

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WinRar Loading
by Johannes Anderwald 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi, im trying to get WinRar 3.2d to load under Reactos. After adding 2 exports to advapi32 (GetFileSecurityW & SetFileSecurityW) it complaints about an unfindable export called "Borland32". Is this export related to the missing SEH support ? regards, -- Johannes Anderwald

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Re: right Re: [ros-general] ReactOS 0.2.1 - Changelog
by theUser BL 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

> > Thats wrong. > > I have tested it. After appendixes you are at > > http://reactos.com/en/content/view/full/257 > > And this document is _empty_ ! > >Look at the menu on the left Hmmm... I have now tested it with Mozilla-FireFox 0.8, Mozilla 1.2.1, an Netscape 4.x and Konqureor 2.2.2. All are Linux-version. On FireFox the side Appendix-side at http://reactos.com/en/content/view/full/257 is empty. What you mean is that under "Navigation" something stand. But thats with Firefox not true. There stand nothing. But for some time there stand under http://reactos.com/en/content/view/full/258 of the "Knowledge Base Articles" the Changelog and Knowledgebase under "Navigation". But now, there isn't anything, too. And all the other browsers show _all_ nothing under "Navigation". Neither on the Appendix-side, nor under the Knowledgebase-side. Please try other browser and you see, what I mean. Greatings theuserbl _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger - sehen, welche Freunde online sind! http://www.msn.de/messenger Jetzt kostenlos downloaden und mitmachen!

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wrong Re: [ros-general] ReactOS 0.2.1 - Changelog
by theUser BL 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

> > how does one navigate from the ReactOS.com frontpage to this changelog? > > I don't see the route that I need to follow for finding changelogs. > > > > ReactOS.com > > --> developer > > --> ??? > > (--> ???) > > --> 0.2.1 changelog > > > > > >http://reactos.com/en/reactos_unified_library/reactos_developer_documentatio > > > > > > > > > >n/reactos_development/the_reactos_project/appendixes/changelogs/0_2_1_change > > > > > > > >Library -> ReactOS Developer Documentation -> ReactOS Development -> The >Reactos Project -> Appendixes (shouldn't that be appendices btw?)-> >Changelogs Thats wrong. I have tested it. After appendixes you are at http://reactos.com/en/content/view/full/257 And this document is _empty_ ! Greatings theuserbl _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger - sehen, welche Freunde online sind! http://www.msn.de/messenger Jetzt kostenlos downloaden und mitmachen!

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Re: right Re: [ros-general] ReactOS 0.2.1 - Changelog
by theUser BL 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Oh, and what mw wonder: At the main-page and on other sides the menu-entries on the left are visible. But at http://reactos.com/en/content/view/full/257 it isn't. Greatings theuserbl _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger - sehen, welche Freunde online sind! http://www.msn.de/messenger Jetzt kostenlos downloaden und mitmachen!

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Re: [ros-cvs] CVS Update: reactos
by KJK::Hyperion 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

At 21.54 29/02/2004, you wrote: >>I am strictly _against_ sharing code between dlls, or ntoskrnl and ntdll. >the directory listing of the leaked Windows sources to make things clear: I have *not* downloaded or otherwise obtained said sources. The listing was posted on a site and linked to on the Slashdot story about the leakage, and I took some time to examine it to tell if it could be genuine, and to catch something interesting if it was (I did find something interesting, and it was the proof that NtUserXxx/NtGdiXxx aren't considered real system calls, but rather glue code, like before I only knew by heart, and like I have speculated in the past on the mailing lists)

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RE: AW: [ros-general] The booting stops without error-message
by theUser BL 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Sorry, that I need always so much time, to answer. >You may have more luck using FreeLoader to boot ReactOS. Download >http://reactos.csh-consult.dk/download.php?sid=FreeLoader-20040229-bochs.i38 >6.tar.gz > >Write it to a floppy disk using RawWrite or similar tool. RawWrite is at >http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm > >Boot ReactOS using the floppy disk. >Note that this floppy disk will only boot ReactOS from the first partition >on the >first harddisk. I have yesterday downloaded and tested it. And it runs now. :-) Thank you very much for this hint. ReactOS looks very nice. One of the best thing is the booting. At first the Freeloader which let you choose between ReactOS and ReactOS with Debug-outputs. Then opens the blue WinNT-screen and wrote something down there. But it's so fast, that I can't read it. So fast on my old computer. :-) Then the nice booting ReactOS-Logo. And I think, in this time, it loads also faster then WinNT. Then there xomes for a half second the blue screen back and then there comes the ReactOS-desktop. And all comes very fast. :-) And under ReactOS the programs (like sol.exe) are running partially fast too. To take a new card of the pack of cards in the left corner of the top, is fast like on WinNT, I think. But moving a card or moving windows is very slow. The menus of the program exist, but they are not usable, what me wonder. :-o And the console-window needs a lot of time, too, to write there the letters, if I type "dir" or anything else in there. But for a 0.2.0-version its excellent. But I am wondering, why the freeloader-floppy-image is not an offical part of ReactOS and why it is not published at Sourceforge. :-/ I think the binary-version of ReactOS plus the FreeLoader floppy-image is a nice combination. But on Sourceforge are actually - of the 0.2.1.RC2-version - only versions for bochs and iso-images vor CDROMs. And my computer is for bochs too slow (and have too less memory) and for the iso-image I have no CD-burner. So I could only test the last final-version: ReactOS 0.2.0. And now a little thought of myself. I think, it would be nice if somethink like the DOS "sys.exe" exists for ReactOS. sys.exe copies the basical system-files to a dos-filesystem (that can be a floppy, a harddisk-partition or anything else) and writes in the MDR which systemfile have been to load. Something else, existing with the FreeLOader-floppy-image. There is the mdr, which says, that freeldr.sys have to load. But the floppy-image is only for a floppy and all files on it will be deleted. So I think something like sys.exe would be nice. So that sys.exe write to the mdr of a floppy, harddisk, - if possible to the CDROM, DVD or anything else. :-) Greatings theuserbl _________________________________________________________________ E-Mails sind Ihnen nicht schnell genug? http://www.msn.de/messenger MSN Messenger - Kommunikation in Echtzeit

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Ros-translate@reactos.com now available
by Jason Filby 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Hi all Ros-translate(a)reactos.com is now available. Send an email to ros-translate-subscribe(a)reactos.com to subscribe to the new list. Cheers Jason __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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