Re: [ros-kernel] Chinese government to develop Windows clone

[Royce M. I. <ro...@ev...>]

I completely agree.

When ReactOS gets big enough, it will hopefully force developers to not use
undocumented APIs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rex Jolliff" <re...@lv...>
To: <rea...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Chinese government to develop Windows clone


> At 04:19 PM 7/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >In some ways, no.  If you look at an operating system, where any
> >developer writing something for it goes by the "This works so it
> >must be ok" mantra, you get software designed to run under a system of
> >behaviors.
>
> Your point about undocumented behavior is well taken, but not as
> relevant when it comes to win32 I believe.
>
> >   For example, your wish to have an alternative shell.  How do
> >you wish to do that and maintain 100% compatibility?
> >-Ian
>
> Our stated goal is not '100% compatibility', whatever you mean by
> that. Instead it is an OS which is compatible with the win32 api and
> the NTDDK api (at least those parts that are documented).  Once we
> get there, the vast majority of software that runs under windows will
> run under reactos.  I for one don't think its productive to strive for
100%
> api compatibility, we should insted implement all documented apis
> to the spec that is available.
>
>
> Rex Jolliff
> re...@lv...
>
>
>
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