[ros-general] Re: Interest in ReactOS

[Björn Fischer]

Lorenzo wrote:

>>I still think we should use the Linux-style file system, BUT use drive
>>letters as shortcuts.
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>Could you explain why? It would just add complexity, IMHO.
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>Lorenzo
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In a book about Win NT internals I read that it is solved like kind of 
what Andrew said. Win NT generally uses the physical structure 
(device\harddisk0\parition1). But Access to this structure is done by 
logical structures which point to the physical structure (c:\ => 
device\harddisk0\parition1).

But I must say even though I prefer the unix style, to me it seems not 
practical to use this for ROS. ROS is a Win32 binary compatible system 
so all applications that (hopefully) will run on it should believe to 
run on a Win32. The same users should. So if there would be a difference 
(perhaps possibility to switch to Unix mode) many apps won't get along 
with it and not run anymore. So there MUST be drive letters to keep 
compatibility.

Greetings

Björn