1st resend: Can we import MSConfig from ReactOS? (was: autorun perhaps dangerous)

[Jason Spiro]

(Hi Alexandre.  I sent the below email 2 weeks ago and didn't get a
response yet.  I know you are busy, but please do try to find the time
to reply, even if it's to say "I'm not sure".  Cheers, --Jason)

cc: wine-devel(a)winehq.org

Hi Alexandre,

In January 2008, Steven Edwards wondered[1] if you would let Wine import
"msconfig" (the System Configuration Utility) from ROS.  Would you allow it?

Thanks,
--Jason Spiro (not a Wine developer)

^ [1].
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c19e31a080801122302u52d5135...

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[Alexandre Julliard]

"Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> In January 2008, Steven Edwards wondered[1] if you would let Wine import
> "msconfig" (the System Configuration Utility) from ROS.  Would you allow it?

No, we don't want to import code from ReactOS at this point.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org

[Jason Spiro]

2008/9/5 Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> wrote:
> No, we don't want to import code from ReactOS at this point.

Thanks for your reply.  Some more questions:  Could the Wine team make
up a whitelist of trusted ReactOS developers who won't reverse
engineer any Windows code?  Or a whitelist of trusted portions of
ReactOS, such as msconfig[1] that are extremely unlikely to have been
written using reverse engineering?

^ [1].  msconfig is a simple GUI utility for changing certain Registry
settings like AutoRun items and such.

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[Steven Edwards]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ^ [1].  msconfig is a simple GUI utility for changing certain Registry
> settings like AutoRun items and such.

I am going to hijack the thread for a sec. I think we do need a
msconfig tool, just to make it less trouble for Windows users that are
used to messing with it to have the ability to change things like
services and run entries. But with regards to autorun...

I have a patch in my tree that adds AutoRun options to winecfg if you
want to use it. I've not sent it along yet because

1. Its not done
2. I'm not sure Wine even really needs to mess with it. Scott and the
Ubuntu guys have been working to fix autorun support in Nautilus and
it mostly works now. I've not really had a chance to mess with it yet,
but from looking over the bug reports I think it could still use a few
enhancements. Windows gives you the ability to set Autorun options for
CD/DVD and Flash. I don't know if Nautilus does this. Also it needs to
have the ability to honor a WINEPREFIX variable to support Wine,
CrossOver, Bordeaux, et al.

Here is the direction I was going for, I was using the DirectSound
registry key modification code as a template but didn't finish it.
Feel free to use it as a starting point if Alexandre agrees we need to
have autorun options in winecfg.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

1st resend: Can we import MSConfig from ReactOS? (was: autorun perhaps dangerous)

[Jason Spiro]

I wrote:
> [...] msconfig is a simple GUI utility for changing certain Registry
> settings like AutoRun items and such.

I used the wrong terminology when I said "AutoRun items".  I should've said
"startup items", i.e. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run items
and other startup items.

[Marcel Partap]

Jason Spiro wrote:
> I wrote:
> > [...] msconfig is a simple GUI utility for changing certain Registry
> > settings like AutoRun items and such.
> > In the meantime: the autoruns.exe tool from the ingenious Sysinternals
> > Suite (bought by M$) does seem to work on wine, have a look at it..
> > regards_marcel.

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