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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Smith [mailto:danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz] 
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:29 AM

> In order to get it into official sources, the ReactOS team 
> will need some support.

What sort of support can we offer? I'm happy to vouch that 'it works for
me'. We've been round this one before with the --auto-import patch after
all.
 
> For the fastcall to work, binutils support is also needed. 
> There is a big problem with binutils because of the vacuum 
> left by DJ stepping down as w32 maintainer.  There are 
> currently  bugs in binutils with respect to ld --shared (or 
> at least there was two weeks ago and has been since 17 [UTC] 
> December).  
> 
> Related frustrations:  ReactOs team has submitted several 
> relatively non-intrusive patches for useful windres 
> improvements that have not been seriously reviewed.  My patch 
> for --exclude-all-libs lingered into forgetfullness.  Ditto 
> for a ReactOs patch for checksums in pe-executables.

Which would be wonderful things to have.  
 
> Chris asked the question a while ago: "Wanna be a binutils 
> maintainer".

Are you asking if someone here can step up? I'd love to, but I suspect I
don't have the time to do a good job. I'm struggling to answer all
setup.exe related questions at the moment. Also, I think the issue is
needing the binutils w32 maintainer, not a cygwin port maintainer, and
frankly, I've no idea what sort of time commitment that entails. If
someone (perhaps DJ) can clarify that I'll consider stepping up for that
maintainership - on the basis of someone being better than no-one, even
if I'm a bit slow on response for them.

Rob