[ros-dev] ReactOS versioning

Tue Mar 10 14:32:25 UTC 2015

what about using this?
internally maybe its necesary to move kernel goal to Windows 7 or even 8.1,
but this way it would be much harder to get ReactOS stable at last.....

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:27 PM, David Quintana (gigaherz) <
gigaherz at gmail.com> wrote:

> SxS doesn't require links, it makes use of them to reduce the actual disk
> usage. The conversation was about how many people "hate" the WinSxS folder
> because when you look at the properties in explorer it shows a very large
> number of GB, but fail to realize this number is not accurate due to the
> large number of DLLs that are shared with System32. If we can't make use of
> hardlinks, we can just copy the actual files. The HDD space used will grow,
> but it's not like if our installation is 15gb... ;P
>
> On 10 March 2015 at 13:41, Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure you realize what you're praising.
>>
>> Links & junctions are not supported on FAT, they require NTFS.
>>
>> On 03/10/2015 12:37 PM, Huw Campbell wrote:
>> > SxS uses hard links, not symlinks.
>> > Seems like the way to go too, as we're already hitting the boundary
>> with common controls and it's how windows does version compatibly.
>> > Huw
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: "Ged Murphy" <gedmurphy.maillists at gmail.com>
>> > Sent: ‎10/‎03/‎2015 10:27 PM
>> > To: "'ReactOS Development List'" <ros-dev at reactos.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS versioning
>> >
>> > It might also be useful to employ some form of heuristics as UAC does.
>> Things like file name detection, string table detection, marked processes
>> via user defined requests or a hash database, etc. Perhaps even scanning
>> the imports (although this is harder to manage due to people using
>> GetProcAddress to detect OS version)
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On Behalf Of Timo
>> Kreuzer
>> > Sent: 07 March 2015 12:44
>> > To: ReactOS Development List
>> > Subject: [ros-dev] ReactOS versioning
>> >
>> >
>> > 1. We need a method to specify which application should be run in which
>> environment. We should probably use the same mechanism that is used on
>> Windows. Compatibility information is stored in a registry key
>> HKCU\Software\Microsodt\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\... The
>> trick is to make this easy / transparent for the user. A right-click ->
>> properties -> compatibility approach should for now probably be the easiest
>> thing,
>> >
>> >
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>> System & Network Administrator
>> Senior Kernel Developer
>> ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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