I've been reading all of the traffic regarding getting explorer to work under WINE or writing a replacement for WINE and thought this would be a good time to chime in. ReactOS is about to release version 0.1.0 this weekend and is starting to include support for basic Windowing and CDrom installing. There has been much discussion on when/if we will reimplement explorer.exe also so maybe we can work together on this as ReactOS is using WINE for large parts of the shell support. If the WINE project is going to start a implementation of explorer.exe then we will work off of that.
Thanks Steven
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On January 31, 2003 01:44 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
If the WINE project is going to start a implementation of explorer.exe then we will work off of that.
Having a Wine-explorer would be a useful addition I think. It would give us a nice browser (people coming from Windows will appreciate it), and a good test for our shell32 and listview stuff. Having just a wrapper around whatever we have now is not that useful. But again, this is more a project for Wine 1.0 or beyond, not 0.9. I'll add it to my Fun Projects page.
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On January 31, 2003 01:44 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
If the WINE project is going to start a implementation of explorer.exe then we will work off of that.
Having a Wine-explorer would be a useful addition I think. It would give us a nice browser (people coming from Windows will appreciate it), and a good test for our shell32 and listview stuff. Having just a wrapper around whatever we have now is not that useful. But again, this is more a project for Wine 1.0 or beyond, not 0.9. I'll add it to my Fun Projects page.
Speaking of cooperation and all that I noticed that ReactOS has a version of cmd.exe that is superior in capability (at least at first glance) to the wcmd that we current have in cvs. I for one would like to see some merging of capabilities. Is there a reason that these two projects command interpreters should not share the same source.
Our cmd.exe is based off of freedos command.com which is GPL. I dont think our cmd.exe maintainer would have a problem relicensing his work as LGPL but for the rest we would need to talk to the freedos people.
Thanks Steven
--- Tony Lambregts tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net wrote:
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On January 31, 2003 01:44 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
If the WINE project is going to start a implementation of explorer.exe then we will work off of that.
Having a Wine-explorer would be a useful addition I think. It would give us a nice browser (people coming from Windows will appreciate it), and a good test for our shell32 and listview stuff. Having just a wrapper around whatever we have now is not that useful. But again, this is more a project for Wine 1.0 or beyond, not 0.9. I'll add it to my Fun Projects page.
Speaking of cooperation and all that I noticed that ReactOS has a version of cmd.exe that is superior in capability (at least at first glance) to the wcmd that we current have in cvs. I for one would like to see some merging of capabilities. Is there a reason that these two projects command interpreters should not share the same source.
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Tony Lambregts
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Steven Edwards wrote:
Our cmd.exe is based off of freedos command.com which is GPL.
Dang!
I dont think our cmd.exe maintainer would have a problem relicensing his work as LGPL but for the rest we would need to talk to the freedos people.
Well, we can at least ask. Do you know who to contact?
Tony Lambregts wrote:
Steven Edwards wrote:
Our cmd.exe is based off of freedos command.com which is GPL.
Dang!
Can someone please explain to me why our winelib apps MUST be LGPL? What is the reason wcmd cannot be GPL? Where is the violation?
Well, we can at least ask. Do you know who to contact?
Wouldn't that mean that wcmd be a Dos program? Isn't that inferior to a "Win32" program that wcmd currently is?
Shachar
Can someone please explain to me why our winelib apps MUST be LGPL? What is the reason wcmd cannot be GPL? Where is the violation?
there's is no violation, but it's easier to ship Wine as being license-uniform, than having different license depending on the directory
Well, we can at least ask. Do you know who to contact?
Wouldn't that mean that wcmd be a Dos program? Isn't that inferior to a "Win32" program that wcmd currently is?
wcmd (and ReactOS cmd) are Win32 CUI programs, not DOS (aka 16 bit MZ) programs A+
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On January 31, 2003 01:44 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
If the WINE project is going to start a implementation of explorer.exe then we will work off of that.
Having a Wine-explorer would be a useful addition I think. It would give us a nice browser (people coming from Windows will appreciate it), and a good test for our shell32 and listview stuff. Having just a wrapper around whatever we have now is not that useful. But again, this is more a project for Wine 1.0 or beyond, not 0.9. I'll add it to my Fun Projects page.
I agree. The placeholder I wrote still has some value, and I'd like to see it in the tree so programs that expect to be able to launch an explorer do launch the closest thing we have to one, but it should be junked as soon as we have a real explorer. - Dan
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