Re: Intent to package Winetools for Debian

2005-01-23 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 02:33:03PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > A user recently pointed out how hard it is to install winetools on > Debian. > > Of course he's right, so I'm making a winetools debian package much like > the wine package. I'll put it in the apt repository along with the > regular

Re: Recruit regression testers?

2005-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 04:01 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: > I think quite a few regressions get into releases, and while a few a > tracked down > some stay in the code for months if not years (I've heard of at least > one game that > worked some 2 years ago but doesn't now), while regression testi

Re: Compiling the MFC using Winelib

2005-01-23 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 01:19:35PM -0800, Dan Dennison wrote: > So as a service to the Wine community I plan to document the process of > building libmfc as part of my master's project. Although the MFC is not the > focus of this project, porting of it is a requirement for the package to > work usi

Re: Compiling the MFC using Winelib

2005-01-23 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi Dan, --- Dan Dennison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So as a service to the Wine community I plan to document the process of > building libmfc as part of my master's project. Although the MFC is not the > focus of this project, porting of it is a requirement for the package to > work using Wineli

Re: Recruit regression testers?

2005-01-23 Thread tony_lambregts
Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: I think quite a few regressions get into releases, and while a few a tracked down some stay in the code for months if not years (I've heard of at least one game that worked some 2 years ago but doesn't now), while regression testing may seem trivial to a developer, it can b

Recruit regression testers?

2005-01-23 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
I think quite a few regressions get into releases, and while a few a tracked down some stay in the code for months if not years (I've heard of at least one game that worked some 2 years ago but doesn't now), while regression testing may seem trivial to a developer, it can be a challenging task f

Re: [LOSTWAGES] Update howto and downloads page (Second try)

2005-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
Whoops, I didn't even notice that had changed on the download page. All I meant to do was just move the thing further up. Ok, redoing patch again... Thanks, Scott Ritchie On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 21:11 -0500, Tom wrote: > Scott Ritchie wrote: > > I removed the conflict in this version. I hate CVS

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:24:48AM +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: > If the appdb isn't good enough, we should fix it, not link to > third party web sites. The AppDB will never replace a Wiki. They serve different purposes. Trying to shoehorn everything in AppDB is a (big) mistake IMO. We need an off

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
If the appdb isn't good enough, we should fix it, not link to third party web sites. Ivan.

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 01:45 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: > My opinion is that no third party tools/web sites should be needed, at least > not > for basic stuff. Anybody that posts to a wiki can also add a comment to appdb, > or become a maintainer. > > Ivan. > > Frankly it means it's a bit too

Re: wined3d updates

2005-01-23 Thread Jesse Allen
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:40:00 + (GMT), Oliver Stieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Oliver Stieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > opps, it helps if I actually attach them > wrote: > > Hi, > > The attached patches: > > > > Bring d3d9.h upto date with MSDN. > > Implement DepthStencils in wined3d. > >

Re: [LOSTWAGES] Update howto and downloads page (Second try)

2005-01-23 Thread Tom
Scott Ritchie wrote: I removed the conflict in this version. I hate CVS. This is a rewrite of the howto to make it short and sweet and remove some of the duplicitous information to link to the User Guide instead. Once I finish the rewrite of the User Guide, things should look pretty smooth and eas

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 17:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > > > >> Can you please add Wine-Wiki.org to the list of Compatibility site. We > >> have been growing greatly, and if it was on the site, it would help > >> everyone. > > > > > > It seems that Wine-Wiki.org i

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
My opinion is that no third party tools/web sites should be needed, at least not for basic stuff. Anybody that posts to a wiki can also add a comment to appdb, or become a maintainer. Ivan.

Re: setupapi: implement MyFree, MyMalloc and MyRealloc

2005-01-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Looks like the new misc.c is missing from the patch...

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread tony_lambregts
Francois Gouget wrote: Can you please add Wine-Wiki.org to the list of Compatibility site. We have been growing greatly, and if it was on the site, it would help everyone. It seems that Wine-Wiki.org is basically redoing the Application Database and IMHO it's a shame for two reasons: * buildi

Intent to package Winetools for Debian

2005-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
A user recently pointed out how hard it is to install winetools on Debian. Of course he's right, so I'm making a winetools debian package much like the wine package. I'll put it in the apt repository along with the regular wine packages when I'm done. Also, I'm thinking of putting winetools in t

Re: [Resend] wineloader: call wineprefixcreate with explicit WINEPREFIX

2005-01-23 Thread Crestez Leonard
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 20:31 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Crestez Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This allows you do "export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-zzz; ./wine regedit", > > and automatically generate ~/.wine-zzz. You used to have to call > > wineprefixcreate yourself, with correct para

Re: MSI: indentation and style cleanup

2005-01-23 Thread Rob Shearman
Mike Hearn wrote: OOM safety is a bit complicated, you have to properly unwind the stack and restore state as you go - for instance the last patch I submitted fixed a bug where OOM would not cause the loop to terminate, but I forgot to free some data as we returned up the stack. Given that it can

Re: Wine Knowledge Base

2005-01-23 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:44:27PM +, Mike Hearn wrote: > If you can convince Newman then I'll owe you beer at WineConf (you're > coming, right?). Yes, I'm coming. And I hope to get that beer :) -- Dimi.

Re: Wine Knowledge Base

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 13:45 -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:03:23PM +, Mike Hearn wrote: > >http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/index.xml > > This is nice, but I'm not sure I agree with your rationale for > not using a real Wiki. It's not my rationale unfortun

New dcom95 mirror

2005-01-23 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
Hello, as Jeremy Newman wanted mirrors for dcom95, here's a new link http://www003.portalis.it/115/download/dcom95.zip Note that because of the Microsoft licencing conditions, you are licenced to download this file only if you are going to use it with wine. Ivan.

Re: MSI: indentation and style cleanup

2005-01-23 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:16:45PM +, Mike Hearn wrote: > Given that it can be quite complex and introduce new bugs, and given that > it's really quite a useless feature IMHO as modern Linux boxes will hang > themselves in swap hell before returning NULL from malloc I don't think > this should

Re: Wine Knowledge Base

2005-01-23 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:03:23PM +, Mike Hearn wrote: >http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/index.xml This is nice, but I'm not sure I agree with your rationale for not using a real Wiki. > - Easy to improve It is easy, but not as easy a regular Wiki. By a long shot. Moreover a Wiki li

Re: Simple web based presentation system useful for WineConf

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:45:12 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: > Mike, on page 6 you refer to --debugmsg, that should be changed. > Apart from that it looks good to me. Sure, back when I wrote it --debugmsg still existed :) I don't think there's any point keeping it up to date, it's just a nice example

Nagging on Wineconf

2005-01-23 Thread Jeremy White
Hi all, Okay, we've got 19 rsvp's for Wineconf. And that's missing me and a lot of other people that I know will be there, so shame on me and shame on you. So get over to www.winehq.org/wineconf and rsvp (including fellow folks from CodeWeavers; if you're reading this, you better plan on being the

Re: olepicture.c compile failure : "structure has no member named `UserData', implicit declaration of function `DGifOpen'"

2005-01-23 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:45:11PM -0800, Rizwan Kassim wrote: > Oh, I see what you mean. > > I've found that getting the latest version of libgif and copying > gif_lib.h into the local directory (and including it in > LD_LIBRARY_PATH) seems to at least halt compile errors. > > Reason I'm asking

Re: Simple web based presentation system useful for WineConf

2005-01-23 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
Mike Hearn wrote: So here is the presentation itself: http://bylands.dur.ac.uk/~mh/wineconf2004/presentation.xml Mike, on page 6 you refer to --debugmsg, that should be changed. Apart from that it looks good to me. Ivan.

Re: [LOSTWAGES] Update howto and downloads page

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:32:24 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > +<<< download.template > +=== Whoops, a merge conflict marker sneaked in there!

Re: PerformanceCounterFrequency fix.

2005-01-23 Thread Lionel Ulmer
> --- wine/dlls/kernel/cpu.c2004-12-29 12:09:47.0 +0100 > +++ mywine/dlls/kernel/cpu.c 2005-01-19 12:39:15.0 +0100 > @@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ BOOL WINAPI QueryPerformanceCounter(PLAR > /* i586 optimized version */ > __asm__ __volatile__ ( "rdtsc" >

Wine Knowledge Base

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
Hi, I was going to wait a while (until it had a bit more content) before announcing this here, but as it seems people are setting up Wikis etc already here is my 2 cents: http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/index.xml ** THIS IS NOT A WIKI ** Instead, it's a mini website that uses a simple d

Simple web based presentation system useful for WineConf

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
Hi, With the spring comes WineConf 2005, and perhaps some interesting presentations by people. Last time I went to WineConf I was asked to write a mini presentation to show newbies what Wine hacking was all about. In the end, there weren't many non-Wine developers there (which is what you'd expe

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-23 Thread Francois Gouget
Can you please add Wine-Wiki.org to the list of Compatibility site. We have been growing greatly, and if it was on the site, it would help everyone. It seems that Wine-Wiki.org is basically redoing the Application Database and IMHO it's a shame for two reasons: * building and maintaining an ap

Re: MSI: indentation and style cleanup

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:33:38 +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote: > I thought more of checking the return value of HeapAlloc/HeapRealloc to > make sure it's not NULL. This would be easy to do. What you proposed is > too complicated. Well, what happens if it is NULL? You can print an error and then re

Re: More DCOM notes

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:29:54 -0600, Rob Shearman wrote: > Do we have any details about how you use RTAs? I have a feeling this was > something that was due to be implemented for Windows 2000, but was > dropped before it shipped. Hmm, good point. I'm not sure. I had a feeling Chris Brumme had tal

Re: MSI: indentation and style cleanup

2005-01-23 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
Mike Hearn wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:02:00 +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote: Well, it should be pretty easy to write a short smatch script to find that occurences. Afair the smatch guys wrote one for the Linux kernel which would need only small adaptations. OOM safety is a bit complicated, you