[ros-dev] VOTE: Switch to Wine Debug System

[Hartmut Birr]

Please split the voting for kernel mode and user mode components.

KERNEL MODE:  NO

USER MODE: YES

- Hartmut


Alex Ionescu wrote:

> VOTING TOPIC: Switch to Wine Debug System, a run-time configurable
> Debug System in which various debug modes can be used (TRACE, WARN,
> FIXME, ERROR, etc). It would use DbgPrintEx along with Debug Filters
> (just like on XP) which can be configured at run-time in the registry
> to set how many of the messages to show. I believe the current WINE
> system has the library doing all this checking, but it's possible they
> do actually use the NT method. DbgPrintEx and filter states are
> currently unimplemented in our ntdll/ntoskrnl, so they must be
> implemented. Additionally, these Debug Messages would only be inserted
> into the code for a DBG build, just like it is currently done now.
> Finally, using this system will allow us to better share code with WINE.
>
> PROS:
>              - Configurable debugging
>              - More versatility then just "Print Always" and "Print if
> I remove NDEBUG"
>              - Better code sharing with WINE
>              - Will lead to the implementation of some DbgPrint
> functions which NT Drivers are bound to use.
>
> CONS:
>              - Requires developer time to switch to this system.
>              - Requires implementing some Kernel Functions.
>
> VOTING TIME: 2 weeks. Results announced Monday 23rd at 5PM EST.
>
> VOTING CHOICES:
>                                  - Yes! Get rid of DPRINT/DPRINT1 and
> implement a run-time configurable Debug System with multiple verbose
> levels, based on WINE syntax and Windows NT implementation.
>                                  - No! Stick with the current static,
> compile-time DPRINT/DPRINT1 system.
>
> VOTING OPEN TO: Due to the nature of this source-level change, voting
> is opened only to developers.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu