[ros-dev] Undocumented APIs

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Casper Hornstrup wrote:

> "If an API or a particular behaviour of an API which is part of the
> Windows(R) operating system is not publicly documented by 
> Microsoft, then
> the API or the particular behaviour of the API may only be 
> implemented in
> ReactOS if there is documentation of published software which 
> depend on the
> API or the particular behaviour of the API, and which is not only
> distributed with the Windows(R) operating system. The 
> documentation must be
> available in the repository."
> 

What if a particular API is required for a particular program to work, but
that API is undocumented by both Microsoft and the owner of the said
program?

Also, what about using code from 3rd parties which might contain
undocumented API's, like Wine for instance?

Ged.











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