New distro and setup managment

[DOSProfi]

hi, my distro gets in beta state ( for long time ago I announced the first pre-alpha via the mailing list ) I have now included 7-Zip and MinGW, useful programs that work with ReactOS, and have a question about setup management:

How can the feature implemented, that support "SP_COPY_FORCE_IN_USE" in setupapi, for Update like applications? I think in winnt like OS's the files are copied in the dllcache directory, but I'm not sue of this.

You can find my distro at www.realdos.de

[jnolles]

Is it in german or is it english?

[DOSProfi]

it is in english, I have heard that reactos doesn't support different languages yet

[DOSProfi]

I have complete the Beta 2 of my ReactOS Distribution. It is a fresh SVN snapshot. I wrote a basic configuration tool called RICO ( RealDOS Installation and COnfiguration ). The tool is witten in ( MSV ) C under GPL. Currently this tool has an installation and network module. The network module works currently only for pcnet ( VMware ) network. You can try it out at:

http://www.realdos.de

[SirTalon]

Your distro sounds pretty good, I had been wondering if either of those worked, its good to hear that both of those do infact run.

[DOSProfi]

I have completed the last Beta of my ReactOS Distribution. Now ScummVM (and sdl.dll) is included and I have extended my installation and configuration tool (RICO - GPL) with an installation and update modul. A modul for the screen - settings is currently in work (look at the source). For the release candidates I plan an application and device database (according to the last SVN Snapshot) and a faq-section on my site.

You can download the Beta and RICO Sourcecode on:

http://www.realdos.de

[Asraniel]

great work!
As i see you have only GPL applications, thats great! This will support the creaton of new GPL applications very much

[Jaix]

I have extended my installation and configuration tool (RICO - GPL) with an installation and update modul. A modul for the screen - settings is currently in work (look at the source).

Are you only working for your own project or are you including your work in the svn tree?

[DOSProfi]

Currently I work for my own, but if I can add it to the svn tree, it would be nice.

[Jaix]

Currently I work for my own, but if I can add it to the svn tree, it would be nice.

Hey, why not join the developer team? There are a lot of userland applications needed for the 0.3 version I suppose.
A good distribution with some good apps are needed, but skilled developers are needed badly.

[HUMA2000]

Yeah! join to the develompment team!! we need as devs as posible!

[DOSProfi]

Sorry, but how to join???

[uniQ]

Get on the mailing lists, and then goto the IRC channel and when there are alot of defs there, and it's not too rough, ask what to do.

-uniQ

[Jaix]

Sorry, but how to join???

Okay, here is some pages with good info on how to get involved...

http://www.reactos.com/en/reactos_devel ... ng_started
http://www.reactos.com/en/reactos_devel ... /frontpage
http://reactos.com/wiki
http://reactos.com/wiki/index.php/ReactOS_Mailing_List
http://reactos.com/wiki/index.php/Progr ... Guidelines

Browse these pages and you will surely get the information you need, also please spread the word to your gifted developer friends.

[DOSProfi]

A new version of RealDOS Workstation is now available. I extend RICO (RealDOS Installation and COnfiguration) with a language change feature. This feature changes the language in the ISO File. Currently it can only change the RealDOS Workstation ISO File, because I used a fixed position to change it. In the next days I extend it with the possibility to change any ReactOS Image and release the Source Code.

To provide Updates it would be necessary to implement the SP_COPY_FORCE_IN_USE style in setupapi.dll. If nobody working on it I would try to implement it.

The RealDOS Workstation is available at the usual place.

http://www.realdos.de