Blog: The Sisyphussian Bug

[Z98]

https://reactos.org/node/803

[PurpleGurl]

I am glad he's making some progress, even if it isn't directly related to the current issues. But I am sure it is building upon the base of knowledge and thus making the intended goals closer.

[gamax92]

Despite not being the progress he's looking for, it's still good work. The more bugs squashed the closer we are and the more we understand.

[Black_Fox]

Picture of a cat means no progress to show to "layman" public, which made me a little sad when opening the blogpost. But I believe the bugs are in finite amount and sooner or later will David run out of them, resulting in stable and polished implementation.

[gigaherz]

The picture of a cat does not mean "no progress". It means that I could take as many screenshots as I want, it still LOOKS the same. The thing about look&feel, is that a single picture can only represent the look, not the feel.

Once I manage to fix all the logic, and the menus work as expected, I'll have to find a means to show you just how "as expected" feels like. ;P

[Black_Fox]

Sorry for misdescribing the cat pictures, I meant "no showable progress" and I meant no offense. When you do have squashed all the bugs you planned, one of the ways to present the results would be a side-by-side comparison video, something similar to this. Or, to present it right in the blogpost, a gif screencast such as this one (link to howto).

[Aeneas]

I believe the adjective is "Sisyphean".

[gigaherz]

Sisyphean, it seems. ;P

EDIT: Oh, you already corrected yourself. ;P

[Aeneas]

...by a split second, my dear...

[elhoir]

hey David!

why not committing into main trunk so that we can all benefit from your progress so far?

[EmuandCo]

Because its not done yet? That's the reason for a branch

[gigaherz]

Exactly. The current code is incomplete. Until it works well enough that we can switch the default explorer to explorer-new, it makes no sense to commit to trunk.

[gonzoMD]

hey David!

why not committing into main trunk so that we can all benefit from your progress so far?

Checkout für branch and build byself. I do so.

[Webunny]

Because its not done yet? That's the reason for a branch

Wasn't it partially implemented in the 0.3.16 RC2, though?

[Z98]

Explorer_new was. The new shell32 library, not so much.