Re: RFC: Re: [ros-kernel] Shell32 and dplax

[Jason F. <jas...@ya...>]

Small steps are best - they usually lead to things getting done in
the end. A more NT-architecture-friendly WINE would really help us
guys working on ReactOS!

- Jason

--- Eric Pouech <eri...@wa...> wrote:
> > IMHO the way WINE handles certain things is really
> > fubar. 
> basically, since Wine evolves like Windows did (16 bit =>
> win32 à la Win9x => NT infra), wine suffers from the same
> defaults :-(
> 
> however, I agree with you that spreading wineserver calls
> all over the DLLs is a bad idea
> IMO, the ultimate design would be to only have wineserver
> calls in NTDLL, but that's a long way to go...
> it would permit nice things as:
> - portability on windows for testing the various DLLs
> - (should be good for ReactOS)
> - would allow to resign drop in replacement for NTDLL, like
>   moving (part of) wineserver inside the Linux kernel
> - ...
> 
> to start with, I think keeping the wineserver calls only
> in the holy three DLLs should be an acceptable short term
> target
> 
> BTW, I did extend a bit the PSAPI implementation (for some
> missing API) and was also upset by the calls to toolhelp
> for that
> 
> in short, moving to NT architecture is the way to go, but
> it'll need some time
> may be we could also create a metabug on bugzilla for this
> and link all known issues to this meta-bug.
> 
> A+
> 
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