" I know people say "Who cares about floppy support?"" I care
Because i do think ReactOS can bring back to life old computers, which still have floppies On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Cameron Gutman <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > With all my respect to the hard work put into this, I want to express my > concerns: > How did I know this was coming? ;) > > > > Why is there a need to develop a half-done fdc, if there is a full, > working, tested by millions driver available even in old DDKs, which we can > use without violating its license? > > Why waste time writing that driver from scratch now when we could just > import DDK's one and spend time fixing our PnP manager instead, and other > involved components so that DDK's driver actually works? > As far as I know, the only floppy related DDK driver is sfloppy.sys. If > that is wrong, I would be happy to import a better fdc.sys and scrap this > one. > > Again, with all my respect to Cameron, he does a great job, but when he > disappears next time for a year or two, who is going to finish FDC? Or any > other of his half-finished branches? (each being really a pearl if it's > done). > aicom-hardware-fun can be deleted because somebody is finally working on > usb. tcp-rewrite-branch was merged to the GSoC project. The only incomplete > branch is aicom-network-branch which has Alex's new Winsock code in it > (which only a few bugs prevent from being fully functional). > > I would really suggest using all available resources first and only then > spend time developing our own stuff instead of already existing. > I did this thing in one (long) night because I was bored. It's not like I > spent a month doing it. I know people say "Who cares about floppy support?" > and I agree but it has to be done at some point to be compatible with > XP/Vista/7. > > > > Thanks for understanding, > > Aleksey. > Regards, > Cameron > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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