[ofw] WDK build environment migration thoughts

[Smith, Stan]

Hello,
  I strongly believe it would help the WinOF community in transitioning
to the WDK build environment if the connectX branch
(svn:gen1\branches\ConnectX) was used as a WDK build environment staging
grounds prior to merging the WDK modifications into the mainline trunk.
This has been talked about before although it still (as of last Friday)
does not build using the latest WDK version.
 
One week prior to merging the WDK fixes into the mainline trunk, if you
were to push all the WDK fixes into the ConnectX branch and then
advertise on the ofw mailing list the availability of a WDK build branch
along with

  1) how to build in the WDK environment,
     which version of the WDK is required + a URL link where to get the
WDK.

  2) An explanation of why and how the __ptr64 attributes were removed
along with how
     others should correct their codes containing __ptr64 attributes.

  3) updates to the WinOF wiki page describing how to build in the WDK
env.

Let this branch exist for one week, receiving feedback from the list and
then merge into the mainline trunk.

Using this approach is certainly community friendly and may prevent
developer surprises.

ConnectX branch availability dates plus when the actual WDK fixes would
be merged into the mainline trunk would be published beforehand.


Thanks for your consideration,

Stan.