[ros-dev] Need to speak out

[Sir Gallantmon (ニール・ゴンパ)]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Ros Arm <ros.arm at reactos.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is the second time that work that someone on the ARM Team has worked
> on has been mostly reverted without any communication with us, and incorrect
> changes have been added to parts of our work.
>
> The Eng function worked on even clearly stated comments such as "Compressed
> surfaces don't have scanlines!", yet this new patch restores the old
> incorrect functionality.
>
> lDelta cannot be anything but != 0 for compressed data such as RLE or
> JPG/PNG! And creating the DIB should not decompress the bits.
>
> Please read
> http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Development/microsoft.public.development.device.drivers/2009-05/msg00165.htmlfor example.
>
> I do not understand how you can believe that "RLE" has a scan-line. I am
> not a graphics expert by no means, but even I understand this fact: by
> definition scan-lines in an RLE are dynamic, and a scan-line offset table
> contains information about that.
>
> You do not have to take my word for it, as a simple driver test case will
> also show that Windows does not decompress RLE data or set lDelta to any
> other value than 0 with an RLE bitmap. You can find more information on RLE
> at http://www.fileformat.info/mirror/egff/ch09_03.htm.
>
> If you are wondering why there have not been any commits coming lately,
> recent actions such as these as the cause.
>
> -r
>
>
I've not seen any ARM ninjas on the mailing list recently either. Where is
the communication?
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