Re: [ros-dev] The situation with version 0.4.14

2021-02-13 Thread M. Ziggyesque
Suggestion for a fourth alternative, do the release, but split off the 3rd party apps with regressions out of rosapps to roswork or some such, possibly as a separate repository, so the kernel and core apps can be focused on. Someone fixes the regressions and that app can be moved back into the

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [reactos] 02/02: [NTOS:MM] Get rid of unnecessary MmZeroingPageThreadActive.

2020-05-10 Thread M. Ziggyesque
I agree with Alex's reasoning, plus in a multiprocessor environment such page zeroing may be done asynchronously to other cores or processors attempting to acquire use of that page while its state is inconsistent. Removing it counts as a security hole, in other words, except for single core

Re: [ros-dev] sumatraPDF

2020-05-01 Thread M. Ziggyesque
] sumatraPDF my point is, to allow them to still support XP/2003 systems (and, of course,ReactOS :) ) On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 4:16 PM M. Ziggyesque mailto:ziggyes...@hotmail.com>> wrote: They have to commit to build/sln configurations based on VS2010-17 in parallel with current VS2019

Re: [ros-dev] sumatraPDF

2020-05-01 Thread M. Ziggyesque
They have to commit to build/sln configurations based on VS2010-17 in parallel with current VS2019 config, it appears, before it is a candidate for ROS to support as part of the rosapp collection. While some support for mingw builds is present, it is considered unsuitable for doing release

Re: [ros-dev] no replies about making reactos accessible for the blind

2018-11-14 Thread M. Ziggyesque
I'm not saying it isn't possible to support the hardware, just I have not seen any pre-boot environment that the installer might need to communicate with attempt to provide this support, so it is also available to whatever gets installed, after reboot. The installer may be fine using only 6-dot

Re: [ros-dev] no replies about making reactos accessible for the blind

2018-11-14 Thread M. Ziggyesque
The console itself is still a graphical user mode app; it or a DOS box simply uses a DefConsoleProc (sic) instead of DefWindowProc behind the scenes to manage the GUI aspects and system menu, and may use an OEM code page instead of an ANSI one in full screen mode. Windows may eventually be able

Re: [ros-dev] WidenPath

2018-09-29 Thread M. Ziggyesque
That would be more suitable for a new WidenPathObj or FlattenPathObj in an add-on library, imo, not changing the declaration of those from the XP versions. -- Original message-- From: katahiromz Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018 2:30 AM To: ReactOS Development List; Cc: Subject:[ros-dev] WidenPath

Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub

2018-06-11 Thread M. Ziggyesque
warrants, but it isn’t paranoia. Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Pierre Schweitzer Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 1:46:55 PM To: ReactOS Development List; M. Ziggyesque; David Quintana (gigaherz) Subject: Re

Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread M. Ziggyesque
No, I don't see it as pointless to have a plan B. It's more a question of when, not if, it's desirable, given past practices. Even with no immediate changes, github can no longer be considered vendor-neutral. Down the road, as example, M$ may well try to require every project adopt their

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] 02/08: [NTOSKRNL] Forbid processes without the Tcb prvilege to perform a user-mode hard-error BSOD.

2018-04-02 Thread M. Ziggyesque
While this has application in protecting a system from rogue or trojan apps, supposedly a shutdown privilege would be something granted manually by a SYSTEM level process that is trusted, so that if the system is not recoverable a graceful shutdown can be attempted with minimal process

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] 01/01: [NTOS:KE] Replace "Fatal System Error" with "BugCheck"

2018-02-11 Thread M. Ziggyesque
My 2 cents, I'd think it better specfies the hex values are BugCheck codes, not another error number set's values. That it's being output to the debug console is indication enough to most it's a System Error. :-) I'd keep "Fatal " before it to keep the emphasis it isn't considered recoverable,