Re: [ros-dev] arwinss does not mean compatibility

2010-02-18 Thread Aleksey Bragin
On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:14 AM, James Tabor wrote: We see the leak due to the compatibility of ReactOS. We use tools from the Net to examine the GDI handle counts. Might I add a point, these tools are written for Windows. ;^) How do we really know that the same leak does not occur with arwinss.

Re: [ros-dev] arwinss does not mean compatibility

2010-02-18 Thread James Tabor
Well a quick overview, Arwinss is allocating from two places, Gdi32 and Win32k. Most likely based on what I read from the source, (wine) Gdi32. I'm not sure if you are passing everything to the ProcessEnvironmentBlock-GdiSharedHandleTable which originates in win32k, if not GDIView may not work.

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Faulds
why? Sent from my iPod Andrew Faulds (andrewweb) On 21 Jan 2010, at 18:50, Alwyn Tan alwyn@gmail.com wrote: I blame andrewweb. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Aleksey Bragin alek...@reactos.org wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Ged Murphy wrote: James Tabor wrote: Although

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-20 Thread Ged Murphy
James Tabor wrote: Although Jim likes the hyperbole, he is right. Arwinss is a stop gap solution that should eventually be deprecated except for the X11 module and used as a basis for verifying the 'correct' win32 subsystem. I'm for both! One will not replace the other... I have no idea

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Gregor Schneider
Now that I understand the driver concept behind arwinss I think that arwinss is the right approach for the project. Looking at the current development approach win32 user and kernel components will not be finished anytime soon and will probably never work 100%. We're just missing specialised

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Aleksey Bragin
Thanks! Press as usual likes flashy topics, so of course everyone edited the news text as he liked, but I like it. ReactOS needed some kick, it was quite sad to see some kind of stagnation (even though everyone did their best, it's just lack of human resources for specific tasks). If we

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Timo Kreuzer
I gave up on arguing. Instead I'll just use this to push my own ideas. I also have a secret plan of a Complete rewrite that will bring ReactOS to the next level not yet sure about the details, but I think it will incorporate something like virtualization and cloud computing. *muahahaha*

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Brian
You sir are what i would call a visionary who makes his dreams work. I wish you the best of luck. -- brian ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Colin Finck
Gregor Schneider wrote: Actually I'm surprised we don't see a big controversial discussion around this idea like everyone expected. Maybe because we already had this one in July: http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2009-July/011896.html As I'm not a Win32k dev, I shouldn't argue about

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Edwards
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Colin Finck m...@colinfinck.de wrote: Maybe because we already had this one in July: http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2009-July/011896.html As I'm not a Win32k dev, I shouldn't argue about technical details. But I still don't believe that all the

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Gregor Gullwi
I'm all for ARWINSS (and yes, I'm still alive). I think it's good to have something that's up and running in a near future so that ros developers can focus on other things. As for the whole double delopment, I'm not so sure. One will always be depricated somehow, unless you have a lot of people

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Ged Murphy
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Colin Finck m...@colinfinck.de wrote: Maybe because we already had this one in July: http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2009-July/011896.html As I'm not a Win32k dev, I shouldn't argue about technical details. But I still don't believe that all the

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Jose Catena
Technically Arwinss may not be the best possible architecture, but IMHO right now is the only viable one in order to reach beta in reasonable time. Sure, we will always see how a more native implementation could be more efficient at the end, but the reality is that given the current human

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Sir Gallantmon
Well, you don't have to be unnecessarily sarcastically cruel about it. I use all three major OSes and I use whatever fits to my needs. Most of the time, Linux does fit my needs. But, I want to play PC games, which are usually Windows games and their DRM schemes hook into the system deeper than

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
performance, and probably compatibility On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Sir Gallantmon ngomp...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, you didn't give a reason to NOT use arwinss as the official win32 subsystem... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, James Tabor jimtabor.ros...@gmail.comwrote: The same

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Edwards
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM, James Tabor jimtabor.ros...@gmail.com wrote: The same thing with the kernel, we can use Linux instead! Create a distribution with it and call it Lindows! Oh wait! That ship has set sail and moved on~! Although Jim likes the hyperbole, he is right. Arwinss is a

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread James Tabor
Good catch! On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Steven Edwards winehac...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM, James Tabor jimtabor.ros...@gmail.com wrote: The same thing with the kernel, we can use Linux instead! Create a distribution with it and call it Lindows! Oh wait! That

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Joshua Bailey
I'm not a developer, so I have no say in the matter, but if you want an outsider's opinion, I would suggest implementing Arwinss for the near-term, so we have better software compatibility. Software compatibility brings publicity, since people will actually be able to do things with ReactOS

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew Faulds
I would agree it would be a nice idea to choose which at install-time, then it would be easy to test both, and would allow any arwinss-haters to get what they want. Sent from my iPod Andrew Faulds (andrewweb) On 20 Jan 2010, at 04:42, Joshua Bailey raptorempe...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not a

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-18 Thread Jérôme Gardou
Because there still exists some features of D3D that OpenGL has not or that some manufacturers implement in their D3D drivers but not in their opengl ICD. The funny side of it is that I use wineD3D on my laptop, because intel drivers suck! Jérôme. Kamil Horníček a écrit : What would be the

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation

2010-01-17 Thread Kamil Horníček
. Kamil - Original Message - From: Jérôme Gardou jerome.gar...@laposte.net To: ReactOS Development List ros-dev@reactos.org Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:31 AM Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss presentation Could this be pushed to write a rosd3d driver? Take all d3d dlls from wine

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-30 Thread Aleksey Bragin
On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:49 AM, James Tabor wrote: If I'm not mistaken, we already imported wine code at the beginning did we not? I'm looking at the commit logs and it does look we started with wine. We need to keep it separated before it is too late. Oh it's already too late. Ah, we missed

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-30 Thread Aleksey Bragin
Stay out of ReactOS! Go ahead and work on ArWinSS, James Man, why so scared? :) Arwinss doesn't even run Firefox2 yet and everyone went crazy. So far Timo provided an extensive answer to my questions, thanks. WBR, Aleksey Bragin. ___ Ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Timo Kreuzer
Oh, c'mon, people. This diagram says nothing. Has anyone of you even a clue of how it would look like for Windows? The only difference to Windows design that can be seen from this diagram is the addition of the NT driver and X11 driver. What it doesn't show is where which parts of the subsystem

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Aleksey Bragin
List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture Oh, c'mon, people. This diagram says nothing. Has anyone of you even a clue of how it would look like for Windows? The only difference to Windows design that can be seen from this diagram is the addition of the NT driver and X11 driver. What

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
war is here 3: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM, James Tabor jimtabor.ros...@gmail.comwrote: No, not even, not in the light of day, shall this ever be part of trunk! Separate project maybe, perhaps or will be a new project altogether! Leave our trunk alone and keep working on ArWinSS where

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Ged
...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 July 2009 18:30 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture No, not even, not in the light of day, shall this ever be part of trunk! Separate project maybe, perhaps or will be a new project altogether! Leave our trunk alone and keep working on ArWinSS

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread King InuYasha
: James Tabor [mailto:jimtabor.ros...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 July 2009 18:30 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture No, not even, not in the light of day, shall this ever be part of trunk! Separate project maybe, perhaps or will be a new project altogether! Leave

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
] Sent: 29 July 2009 18:30 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture No, not even, not in the light of day, shall this ever be part of trunk! Separate project maybe, perhaps or will be a new project altogether! Leave our trunk alone and keep working on ArWinSS

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Zachary Gorden
Why would we need the X server for remote access if we have terminal services? ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Alexandru Lovin
- From: James Tabor [mailto:jimtabor.ros...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 July 2009 18:30 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture No, not even, not in the light of day, shall this ever be part of trunk! Separate project maybe, perhaps or will be a new project

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss architecture

2009-07-29 Thread Steven Edwards
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Zachary Gordendrakekaizer...@gmail.com wrote: Why would we need the X server for remote access if we have terminal services? We don't have terminal services though. I mean we should of course, and I should also have a pony. I'm not saying it should go in trunk

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-21 Thread KJK::Hyperion
King InuYasha wrote: Ok, a little more confused now. You said that the idea that Wine code is better than ReactOS code needs to die, but you turn around and basically state that Wine code IS better than ReactOS code. Did you mean that the idea that ReactOS code is better than Wine code? I did

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-21 Thread Kamil Hornícek
- From: King InuYasha To: ReactOS Development List Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM, KJK::Hyperion hackbu...@reactos.org wrote: Timo Kreuzer wrote: Wine emulates the kernel through a server. Of cause we don't use

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread King InuYasha
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Steven Edwards winehac...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/7/20 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo elh...@gmail.com: support of remote sessions via X Windows what the Does it mean some GUI Linux apps would be able to run into ROS with that new Win32 subsystem??

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread Steven Edwards
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:31 AM, King InuYashangomp...@gmail.com wrote: Would it also mean that an X11 API library could be plugged in so that X based applications can be more easily ported to Windows/ReactOS while still providing the transparency to view on another machine through X11

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread Timo Kreuzer
Hi, Some people might have already noticed that I have a strong opinion regarding this rewrite. So let me explain my point of view here. Aleksey, thanks for clarification and confirming a lot of what I already thought. I hope you don't feel offended (at least not more than I was, when browsing

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread KJK::Hyperion
Aleksey Bragin has huge balls of fire. Go ahead, madman ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread KJK::Hyperion
Timo Kreuzer wrote: Wine emulates the kernel through a server. Of cause we don't use it, because it has a totally different design. Says who? So far, and only counting official implementations, Win32 has been implemented as: - a shared-memory user mode subsystem (Windows 95, 98) - a RPC user

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread yardkarter456
: [ros-dev] Arwinss Sent: Jul 20, 2009 8:47 AM Timo Kreuzer wrote: Wine emulates the kernel through a server. Of cause we don't use it, because it has a totally different design. Says who? So far, and only counting official implementations, Win32 has been implemented as: - a shared-memory user

Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss

2009-07-20 Thread Timo Kreuzer
. --Original Message-- From: KJK::Hyperion Sender: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org To: ReactOS Development List ReplyTo: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Arwinss Sent: Jul 20, 2009 8:47 AM Timo Kreuzer wrote: Wine emulates the kernel through a server. Of cause we don't use