Re: [ros-dev] New ideas added to GSoC Ideas list

2017-03-17 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
Dear Can, Your argument would hold if the objective of the project was to support edge cases by coding legacy support to eliminate the need for other people to modernize their infrastructure. Is this what ReactOS wants to achieve as its main goal? I would get your argument if ReactOS was even

Re: [ros-dev] YNT: New ideas added to GSoC Ideas list

2017-03-17 Thread Alexander Rechitskiy
  17.03.2017, 14:56, "Can Tasan" :Dear Ricardo, Firstly, Win16 application support doesn't interrupt our project. It strengthens us. On technical view, supporting them doesn't make any design change to NT architecture, apps won't be able to access hardware directly. Like any

[ros-dev] YNT: New ideas added to GSoC Ideas list

2017-03-17 Thread Can Tasan
Dear Ricardo, Firstly, Win16 application support doesn't interrupt our project. It strengthens us. On technical view, supporting them doesn't make any design change to NT architecture, apps won't be able to access hardware directly. Like any app, they'll obey the rules. Secondly, there are a

Re: [ros-dev] New ideas added to GSoC Ideas list

2017-03-17 Thread Can Tasan
Dear Ricardo, Firstly, Win16 application support doesn't interrupt our project. It strengthens us. On technical view, supporting them doesn't make any design change to NT architecture, apps won't be able to access hardware directly. Like any app, they'll obey the rules. Secondly, there are a

Re: [ros-dev] New ideas added to GSoC Ideas list

2017-03-17 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
Sorry for the non-developer intrusion, this is the point of view of an IT technician that would happily substitute Windows machines with ReactOS machine in an hypotetical future. To me, this looks like an extension (and a perilous one) to the “which NT version should we target?” discussion,