I didn't say stall the development of ReactOS. I said Windows is a moving target. And I also listed a bunch of interfaces that had changed specification in subsequent releases of Windows.
And I didn't say you said to stall development of ReactOS, I said that I don't think it would actually stall development :-)
ReactOS has a target of Windows Server 2003. If they decide to upgrade to a later operating system, I'm not quite sure I see that as a huge issue.
It's not a huge issue. It's exactly what they've done already for the last 20 odd years. Hence why I say they're chasing a moving target ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT#/me...
* the HAL - there have been changes here, but nothing so fundamental that can't be built upon
* kernel mode drivers - these have changed and new models keep getting released by Microsoft, but these rely on well defined interfaces and a lot of it is in the kernel mode driver framework (KMDF). A detailed history can be found here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/hardware/drivers/wdf/kmdf...
The user mode driver framework is similar.
I'm not going to go through the rest of the subsystems, you might want to review this document:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160113113554/http://research.m...
So... sure, things have changed over the years but they most certainly aren't radical enough to stall development of ReactOS.