[ros-dev] End-of-merge for some components shared with Wine

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Ge

--- Ge van Geldorp <gvg at reactos.com> wrote:
> It's becoming impossible for me to keep some components synced with Wine.
> For some components, we have too many changes in our tree which were not
> submitted to Wine. I've tried to submit some of "our" changes, but was
> unable to answer questions asked by the Wine people, since I simply do not
> have enough knowledge of those particular DLLs. The original (ReactOS)
> authors of the changes are not interested or currently unable to answer
> either.
> 
> So, the following components are now effectively forked:
> - tools/widl

Eric has said he would merge this at some point.

> - lib/dinput

There were some changes that needed to go on in the winehq side last time a checked, for a Xorg
extension to handle the mouse that BBrox and others were working on. We can resync this later.

> - lib/setupapi

I will keep working on this. The issue we have is that Alexandre does not want to accept certain
patches unless we can prove a real world application depends on certain behavior.
Private/Undocumented APIs won't be synced.

> - lib/winmm

Is the diff for winmm really that large?

Thanks
Steven


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