Quite a few 'userland' features of NT6 requires kernel support to function properly. If we go in, it would be, do NT6 kernel and slowly bring the userland up to NT6. But we don't have a fully working NT5 kernel yet, so....
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:34 AM, David Quintana (gigaherz) <gigah...@gmail.com> wrote: > If we do NT6, we may want to have latest NT6 instead of trying to stick to > an older one and having the same deprecation issue in a couple years? > > Also, what about the "idea" of keeping the majority of the kernel and large > part of the usermode NT5, but having compatibility profiles that > implement/emulate NT6 API functions using the existing NT5 feature set? Is > that unrealistic? > > On 12 May 2016 at 14:39, Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org> wrote: >> >> Which again brings in the topic of updating the version we are targeting. >> Windows 7 would be a minimum target these days, IMO. >> >> Regards, >> Aleksey Bragin >> >> On 12.05.2016 14:04, Ged Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Yeah it's nonsense. No one drops support for ReactOS, they drop support >>> for >>> older versions of Windows which likely includes reactos too. >>> If they were adding in ReactOS specific code, they were doing it wrong. >>> >>> The bigger issue here is that a lot of apps are starting to drop support >>> for >>> XP and recommend a minimum of Win7. If we don't do something about our >>> insistence on sticking with 2k3, we'll soon be in a position where no >>> browsers will run on ros, as well as a whole other list of apps. >>> >>> Ged. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev@reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
