Hi Samuli On Friday 16 October 2015 19:00:13 Samuli Seppänen wrote: > - The service wrapper (openvpnserv.exe) is effectively broken for > Windows 8 and later > - The service wrapper has very limited functionality > - The OpenVPN-GUI we bundle has several major issues, most related to > having to run it as an admin
The interactive service that I posted a year ago solves all these problems. > I'm thinking it might make sense to create a dedicated Windows team that > could share the burden of Windows issues amongst themselves, without any > one person gettings tagged the "Windows guy". Judging from the review the Windows patches received I think this might be an too ambitious goal. Obviously not many care besides the regulars who make a one time exception every now and then and get their hands dirty on Windows code if they feel it matters. > am working on a replacement for openvpnserv.exe. Please consider reviewing and improving the interactive service patch instead of duplicating work. > The Windows team could have a separate board on OpenVPN forums and maybe > even a separate IRC channel. This is fairly typical arrangement in Linux > distributions, which have topic- and language-specific groups. We could > then point people with Windows issues/patches/development questions etc. > to the Windows team. I think that's rather counter productive. Dev work on different systems has too much common ground to completely separate the ppl by OS. Heiko Sophos Technology GmbH, Amalienbadstraẞe 41/Bau 52, D-76227 Karlsruhe, Deutschland Tel +49 (0)721 25516 0 Fax +49 (0)721 25516 200 E-Mail i...@sophos.de www.sophos.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsruhe, Amtsgericht Mannheim HRB 712658 Geschäftsführer: Nicholas Bray, Pino von Kienlin, Wolfgang Hilpert, Jennifer Onslow. Sophos GmbH, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Deutschland Tel +49 (0) 611 5858-0 Fax +49 (0) 611 5858-1042 E-Mail i...@sophos.de www.sophos.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Wiesbaden, Amtsgericht Wiesbaden HRB 25915 Geschäftsführer: Nicholas Bray, Wolfgang Hilpert, Pino von Kienlin, Jennifer Onslow
