Wine/ReactOS Co-operation, was Re: [ros-dev] Must Read!!!! Msi.dll and Bison Alert!!!!

Robert Shearman rob at codeweavers.com
Wed Dec 1 15:41:31 CET 2004


James Tabor wrote:

> Hi!
> Robert Shearman wrote:
>
>>
>> What exactly do you mean by this? What are third and fourth level 
>> dlls? What is the weird programming stuff you obviously dislike?
>>
> Simple app dlls, or should be simple, good example is wines advpack.dll.
> Look at the wine imports compared to the real M$ advpack.dll imports you
> will see. Why setupapi? advpack should be code dependent with ntdll,
> kernel32, and gdi32. That was my point about that.


Is this just a philosophical point that the dependencies should be less 
than or equal to those of the Microsoft DLL, or is there some technical 
reason? Maybe we are misusing setupapi in some way. If so, please let us 
know.

Rob


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