Martin, sending a bunch of patches compressed and in one message, makes them almost unreviewable but by the most die hards readers of wine-patches. It also makes it so much more difficult for Alexandre to split them up, match the ChangeLog, review them, etc. Please stick to one-(uncompressed, inlined)-patch-per-email-messsage rule, it's so much better for everybody.
Yes, I am aware of that. This patch is the result of four weeks work (not only of me), spending most of the time with debugging, as most of those stuff is pretty undocumented by Microsoft. It's not possible to simply look at the ReactOS CVS history to separate out patches for every small piece of change. If you want me to send in it this way, this would take me another week. I don't think, it's worth that. It would be better to commit the code changes in one transaction. Shell32 has been quite incomplete before this patch, and it's also far from complete with this patch.
Why I have compressed the attachments: Well, I don't think every one on the list wants to read the changes, which are not very readable at their own. And reading through endless hex numbers of shres.rc is also not very interesting.
Regards,
Martin