[ros-dev] Piles upon piles of regressions

[James Tabor]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I realize maybe some of you are aware of these, but it seems that we 
> just keep adding more and more regressions and there hasn't really been 
> an effort to fix them... We don't have a TC anymore and now the tree is 
> becoming as bad as before, which just proves the point of how badly this 
> project needed a TC.
> 
> I've just booted ROS for the first time in a month and I'm surprised at 
> the number of new things that have cropped up. The start menu became 
> huge, the registry is not cleanly dereferenced at shutdown (causing it 
> to get damaged and that makes freeldr display the "Codepage error"), 
> dhcp still crashes on first-boot since networking isn't installed, the 
> 16x16 icons look like crap since alphablending was implemented, all 
> sorts of drivers "fail to load' on startup, RPC displays messages about 
> "Buffer overflows", umpnpmgr tries to copy invalid drivers, shutdown 
> still doesn't work on my QEMU,... and this is only what I've noticed 
> after 2 minutes.
> 
> Anyways, I don't want to nitpick, just to bring these issues up to 
> attention in case noobdy is aware of them.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
Hi!
Yes! I know! I thought I was going insane! Does anyone on this list test
anything anymore?

First time I reported it.

http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2005-October/005841.html

Problem went away until r19019, it came back.

Thanks,
James