Fixing plan
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A plan how to get ReactOS fixed (a serious thing). Please, put well-formed, informative description of what should be fixed in order to "make ReactOS work". Linking to other wiki pages is good.
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Build tools
- Make rbuild suck less: dependencies caching, or up to a full rewrite, and decent support for other compilers than GCC, specifically MSVC.
See why Rbuild_sucks
regtests
- Improve reliability, so it does not randomly fail.
- Fix crashing/hanging winetests, so we run all tests
- I'm still of the opinion that this isn't the right way to go. Tests even crash under Wine or Windows from time to time.
We should rather implement a feature for recovering from crashes. --Colin Finck 22:05, 22 December 2008 (UTC) - Crashing tests are not the problem, crashing ros is the problem. I mean these crashes should be fixed asap. --ThePhysicist 16:40, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
- We still need a way to resume the test suite after a critical crash --kjkhyperion 04:40, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
- I'm still of the opinion that this isn't the right way to go. Tests even crash under Wine or Windows from time to time.
- Have a list in the tree that describes what tests currently fail, report regressions to that list (Buildbot page)
Drivers
- FASTFAT - fix existing, or rewrite to have a real file system driver working in Windows 2003 (in progress, by Aleksey Bragin, Alex Vlasov, Pierre Schweitzer).
- CDFS - same thing.
- kdcom - implement missing stuff, to be able to connect WinDbg — (actually, completely new kdcom is needed, plus missing KD64 support in kernel -- Stefan) (in progress by Stefan Ginsberg, Aleksey Bragin, Timo Kreuzer)
- A working version was committed to x64 branch, needs testing on x86 though. Could need some improvements. --ThePhysicist 00:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Kernel
- Mm: step-by-step rewrite.
- major rewrite done by ARM team. update status? -- Lone Rifle 08:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Cc: Finish Arty's Cc, look into cc-rewrite-branch, or fix NoCc.
Run-Time Library
- Rewrite heap implementation
- Add a special heap implementation above it (having guard pages, overwrite/underwrite checks)
Win32 subsystem
- Font/Text rewrite
- Based on Windows design using font drivers
- Write a simple driver for .fon and test it on Windows
- Began working on a .fon/.fnt font driver on Windows XP, halfway there. --ThePhysicist 00:42, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
- Make ReactOS load that driver to manage fonts and render glyphs.
- Convert freetype into a font driver.
- This is a massive amount of work to be done (complete rewrite).
- Can and should be done in a branch.
- Usermode printer driver support
- Needs almost full implementation.
- Most NtGdiEng etc functions need to be fixed
- No real need to do it a branch, as it's unlikely to break anything.
- NtUser/User32 structure fix
- Make the structures shared between kernel and user mode more like windows.
- Get rid of the kernel mode Window structure
- Difficult to do in a branch, unless all work on user32/ntuser is done in that branch.
- Fix ntuser window handling
- The whole code is a huge mess. It seems it has not even a design.
- It should be redesigned. (Call chains, etc)
- Depends on NtUser/User32 structure fix
- Should be done in a branch.
- Fix timer implementation
- Firefox, move mouse bug
- Implement support for EMF (port from wine?)
- Fix palette handling
KJK::Hyperion's noncommittal statement
I will continue to identify and fix serious obstacles to a smooth development experience as I see fit
