[ros-kernel] Re: WINE porting templates - weekly snapshot

[gerard.gatineau]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>--- "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com> wrote:
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>>On October 11, 2003 06:40 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
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>>>I really dont want to have a ReactOS column in the list as the
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>>ReactOS
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>>>project is planning on properly branching winehq cvs when WINE
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>>reaches
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>>>reaches 0.9/1.0.
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>>Why would you want to branch, I would have thought that you want to
>>keep a common codebase. There is no reason most of Wine's DLL not to
>>work out of the box for the ReactOS project. I wouldn't worry about
>>the political aspect for now, I still think it would be a good idea
>>to know how many DLLs you guys are using. In fact, nobody will blame
>>us as you say, we will mark you (or the ReactOS team) as being
>>responsible for the port, so you will have to field support/requrest
>>questions.
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>Well yes in the "should" work out of the box under ReactOS but most
>dont work perfectly atm due to bugs in our Win32k/GDI/User32
>implementaion. I agree it would be nice to keep better track of this on
>the WINE porting page and I do want to have a common codebase with as
>little or no forking if possible but like I said I dont want to flood
>Winehq with ReactOS bugs reports when its not the fault of one of the
>WINE dlls.
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>Currently ReactOS is on its 1.x branch and we still have problems using
>the WINE dlls as shown below:
>http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/10/att-0145/02-taskmgr.png
>http://www.reactos.com/content/view/full/305/
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>I dont make policy in ReactOS as to layout of CVS and code sharing so
>this has to be discusses with our kernel maintainer. I would suggest
>that for the time being the ReactOS should fork the dlls/programs we
>need using CVS branching untill all of our rendering problems are
>fixed. During this time I can make weekly snapshots of Winehq mingw
>builds avaliable for people that really want them. After ReactOS 2.0
>Maybe we can drop our own forking of this code and work right out of
>Winehq.
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>Thanks
>Steven
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Steven,

I like your proposal for weekly snapshot of wine dll  which  cannot be 
built for the moment in the Reactos module.
This may allow  everybody to be able to have some applications working 
in the box ( explorer , taslmgr, .....) 

regards
Gerard