[ros-kernel] Re: WINE porting templates

[Jason Filby]

Hi all

I agree that forking should be avoided at all costs. Of course it
will be unavoidable for lower level DLLs such as user32. I'm getting
the tail end of this discussion so someone please fill me in if I'm
missing some big issues. The big deal with be source control
differences between the two projects - we'll probably have to come up
with a document on this to clarify things.

Regards
Jason

--- Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com> wrote:
> > I think forking them does no one no favours, either Wine for
> ReactOS.
> > If our code is OK, tweaking it to work around bugs in ReactOS is
> a
> > very, very bad idea:
> >   -- you end up with a system capable of running just some
> tweaked
> > apps
> >   -- it diminishes incentive to fix the real problem
> >   -- we end up with a forked codebase
> > Similarly, if we have problems in our codebase, we'd appreciate
> > fixes,
> > or at least to know about it. This is the entire reason to want
> our
> > stuff to be portable -- to have other people test the code and
> report
> > (or even fix) problems. If you fork the code, you also cut the
> stream
> > of patches flowing into Wine.
> > 
> > In the end we both lose. Even if you don't care about Wine, I
> can't
> > see
> > how forking anything is a good idea for ReactOS.
> 
> Dont get me wrong I dont think it is either. I just dont make the
> policy as to how we are going to handle this in ReactOS. I am all
> for
> us working together as much as possible with little or no forking
> but
> its going to take some work to setup a system that will work for
> both
> partys.
> 
> I will start by setting up a box that does weekly builds for
> Mingw/ReactOS.
> 
> Thanks
> Steven
> 
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