Hi,
this message is a bit provocative, but please don't be offended by it.
You all did a wonderful work during this year. Thank you!
It's very good to see the work is going on. Just for fun, when I had
spare 15 minutes, I decided to check, what was done in the win32
subsystem during this year by the major, respectable and very old time
ReactOS developer, and whether my proposal with Arwinss still stands or not.
Here is what I found: (analyzing ~ 62 commits by jimtabor):
- 25 revisions: Fixes/hacks of our code (ReactOS-specific bug, works in
Wine, sometimes says in comments "//// ReactOS : Justin Case something
goes wrong.") (revs 58528, 58562, 58563, 58633, 58773, 58999, 59000,
59201, 60054, 60587, 60590, 60592, 60622, 60626, 60659, 60676, 60677,
60881, 61078, 61079, 61142, 61250, 61251, 61292, 61458)
- 13 revisions: Syncs with Wine (revs 59157, 59158, 59159, 60763, 60784,
60807, 60820, 60858, 60863, 60865, 60867, 61244, 61422)
- 14 revisions: Own code development or rewriting old code, some of
which might have been derived from ancient versions of Wine.
(60387, 60389, 60394, 60539, 60599, 60602, 60660, 60682, 60683, 60684,
60718, 60883, 60976, 60992)
- 1 revision: attempt to fix a bug found in Wine (revision 60054, issue
CORE-6024)
You don't need to be a scientist to see that 61% of the changes went
into fixing ReactOS specific bugs or just bringing in newer Wine code to
fix old Wine bugs. Remaining 22% of efforts was spent on actually
developing our own, assumingly better code, and just 1 revision was
spent on such a glorious thing as fixing Wine's bug.
ReactOS is a just for fun type of project, so I highly appreciate that
efforts were put into all of the above!
However, I still think that it would be beneficial if someone would put
similar efforts into Arwinss to eliminate the need to bring in hacks and
fix stuff which works in Wine for years already, and focus on developing
only those parts which we obviously can't share (GDI, hardware
accelerated graphics, whatever else).
I lack time to do this myself, but if anyone volunteers I would be glad
to help, share my experience and think up of interesting tasks. Like,
getting Arwinss to work in Windows 2003 instead of its native subsystem,
which would be a nice test.
Regards,
Aleksey Bragin
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