[ros-dev] Release 0.2.6

[Richard Campbell]

If we were to do that 0.3 would be delayed WELL into next year.  A RAS 
compatible PPP implementation would be ALOT of work.

Karim Liman-Tinguiri wrote:

>Greetings everyone,
>
>I totally agree with Murphy and I believe we should launch another
>0.2.x release before the next 0.3 release. I think before we can
>launch a 0.3 release, we need to have a solid support for Win32
>drivers: networking doesn't limit to LAN-Ethernet, but it also
>includes PPP and modem connection (analogic and broadband).
>
>With the growing amounts of winmodems, Win32 driver support must
>definitely be implemented before claiming "networking support": this
>is one of the weaker points of Linux: driver compatibility (though
>lots of efforts are being made by manufacturers and hackers), many
>drivers are still only available on the windows platform. It'd be much
>cheaper, programming-effort wise, to natively support windows driver
>than try to port them to ReactOS, (I'm not even mentionning the case
>of closed-source drivers and undocumented hardware).
>
>As is stated in the status page of the library "Driver Support At the
>moment, work to support 3rd party drivers (Microsoft Windows
>compatible) is restricted. The focus is more on only basic drivers
>that are written in conjunction with the various kernel facilities." ;
>there's not much 3rd party Microsft Driver support. It'd definitely
>have to be implemented before 0.3 release.
>
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:09:07 -0000, Murphy,  Ged (Bolton)
><MurphyG at cmpbatteries.co.uk> wrote:
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>
>>Agreed.
>>
>>It'll be good for publicity too.
>>Regular minor releases are better than infrequent major releases.
>>
>>Gedi.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jason Filby [mailto:jason.filby at gmail.com]
>>Sent: 23 February 2005 17:57
>>To: ReactOS Development List
>>Subject: [ros-dev] Release 0.2.6
>>
>>Hi all
>>
>>The consensus on IRC appears to be that we need another 0.2.x release.
>>The reason is that 0.3 is our "network" release and there's still some
>>work to do to justify this.
>>
>>Everyone agree?
>>
>>Cheers
>>Jason
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