Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Ivan Leo Puoti
Mike Hearn wrote: Rather worryingly a guy claiming to be a ReactOS developer claims in the same story that 99% of apps break if you set Wine to WinXP mode, which is quite clearly false. Even if it was true you can just set winver to xp to get the download, then switch it back to win98/2k or whatev

Re: Winemaker questions

2005-02-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 18 Feb 2005, Vincent Béron wrote: Hi François, I tried to use winemaker on an app, and I had the following notes about it. 1) Some subdirs were not visited by winemaker, while some others were. Should it visit all of them recursively? Does it stops if there are no source file in a dir (but

Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Tom
Mike Hearn wrote: It appears that Photo Story is *only* available if you validate, it's not optional in this case. If you click "Download Photo Story 3" here you are told to validate: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx While this app is given away fo

Re: Microsoft genuine downloads looking for wine

2005-02-19 Thread Brian Vincent
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:25:17 -0700, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:28:59 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry > > key, this key is... > > SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config > > the wine conf

Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:12 -0500, Tom wrote: > I would only guess IE7 when it ships this summer? > One more reason for windows users to install and use FireFox. I should have read the press release more closely: New software incentives, valued at more than $450 (U.S.), will be added for users of

Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Filip Navara
Tom wrote: Rather worryingly a guy claiming to be a ReactOS developer Is this guy a real ReactOS developer? I don't recall the name ever being on wine-devel, wine-patches... He's rather new to the ReactOS project and works on the kernel... (http://reactos.com/wiki/index.php/People_of_ReactOS) -

Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Tom
Mike Hearn wrote: Fascinating. For those who don't want to read the whole thing, here is their response: WGA differentiates the value of genuine versions of Windows XP and Windows 2000 from other operating systems, including v

Re: Microsoft genuine downloads looking for wine

2005-02-19 Thread Jesse Allen
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:28:59 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry > key, this key is... > SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config > the wine configuration key. Has anyone tried creating this key on Win2k or 98 and seeing what ha

Re: World Of Warcraft

2005-02-19 Thread Alex Woods
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:03:23PM +0100, Lionel Ulmer wrote: > > > I posted a bug about this on December 7, 2004 at this location: > > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2603 Nothing has happened yet with > > > this bug except for someone else confirming it. > > > > As to lionel why he dont

Re: Microsoft genuine downloads looking for wine

2005-02-19 Thread Jeremy White
By the way, has anyone yet spoken to the Software Freedom Law Center about whether there is legal recourse available to us in this matter (now, or in the future)? How lovely to have had a legal service specify that they wanted the project as a client, scant weeks before a big corporation target

Re: Microsoft genuine downloads looking for wine

2005-02-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: As some of you may know, Microsoft is planning to totally restrict access to the Microsoft download center to all non-genuine windows users. So you would expect some check for pirated copies of windows to be involved. If you visit the download center with IE you get an acti

idea to spot regressions

2005-02-19 Thread Jonathan Ernst
Hi everyone, I'd like to know what you people think about this idea for the application database: When an application version goes from gold to silver or silver to bronze for example, the AppDB asks the maintainer if he wants to inform wine developpers about this regression and if yes the maintain

Re: Microsoft genuine downloads looking for wine

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, Sam Lauber wrote: > Agreed. Can't we just delete > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Software/Wine or move it to another name? Eh?? This is certainly a non-solution. Since they cared as much as actively checking for a Wine key and preventing downloads in the case o

Re: Installshield (with Roller Coaster Tycoon demo)

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:33:35PM +0100, Krzysztof Kosz wrote: > Yes, it looks like a fallback. And one thing more to note (don't know if > that's matter): Linux is case sensitive (I assume that Wine also) and we > have here: {00020430---C000-0046} versus > {00020430--

Re: Making builtin OLE32 work right

2005-02-19 Thread Mike Hearn
Here is a brain dump of what I already know we need to fix for the CW supported apps: 1) InstallShield:RPC call re-entrancy 2) Lotus Notes: OLE drag/drop leaves an image of the window behind when it closes. Native does this functionality very dif

Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Mike Hearn
Fascinating. For those who don't want to read the whole thing, here is their response: WGA differentiates the value of genuine versions of Windows XP and Windows 2000 from other operating systems, including virtualized versio

Re: modem

2005-02-19 Thread Mike Hearn
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:45:48 +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote: > I'm using an analog modem, and as it is not easy to select the appropriate > cal-by-call provider, I tried to use web.de's SmartSurfer which works fine > with windows. But wine gives me only the choice to select some 'WINE > virtmodem' w

Re: Ctrl-Shift-N recognized as Ctrl-N

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:02:13AM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hello, > > using wine-20050111-0.1 (SUSE builds) or a nightly Codeweavers (or an > older version of both for that matter) I have the following problem. > > The application Diamond 2 has the following menu shortcuts > Ctrl-N

Re: Installshield (with Roller Coaster Tycoon demo)

2005-02-19 Thread Krzysztof Kosz
Paul Vriens wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:26, Robert Shearman wrote: >> Paul Vriens wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> >I copied over a stdole32.tlb, the error is still there. The two >> >(builtin/native) traces however show a difference: >> > >> >With builtin stdole32.tlb: >> > >> >000b:trace:ole:IT

Ctrl-Shift-N recognized as Ctrl-N

2005-02-19 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, using wine-20050111-0.1 (SUSE builds) or a nightly Codeweavers (or an older version of both for that matter) I have the following problem. The application Diamond 2 has the following menu shortcuts Ctrl-N -> New file Ctrl-Shift-N -> Connect atoms unfortunally, I always get a new fi

Re: press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Tom
Tom wrote: Hello All, I just ran across this at eweek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1766843,00.asp Ivan you are now famous can I get your autograph ;) Tom You can get "Microsoft's Response" from: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1766738,00.asp page two.. Tom

press -- eweek, Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

2005-02-19 Thread Tom
Hello All, I just ran across this at eweek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1766843,00.asp Ivan you are now famous can I get your autograph ;) Tom

Re: status of wine dll's

2005-02-19 Thread Tom
Michael Jung wrote: * As a rough guess, I would say that rsaenh.dll is 70% complete by now. :-) * I think we should get rid of the rsabase.dll entry on the status_dll site (and probably also in wine cvs): rsaenh.dll is a complete replacement and rsabase isn't shipped anymore by Microsoft since W

Re: status of wine dll's

2005-02-19 Thread Michael Jung
Hi Tom, On Saturday 19 February 2005 03:56, you wrote: > can you take a couple minutes and look over our dll staus page and let > me know of any changes that your aware of? * As a rough guess, I would say that rsaenh.dll is 70% complete by now. * I think we should get rid of the rsabase.dll ent

Re: Making builtin OLE32 work right

2005-02-19 Thread Mike McCormack
Holly Bostick wrote: Now, from what I hear, it's going to become much more difficult for me to do even that in the near future, which stinks, as it was already a PITA. Right. Microsoft will help Wine by making it harder to download parts of Windows, and better to use Wine code. We need to mak

Re: World Of Warcraft

2005-02-19 Thread Paul van Schayck
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:28:04 -0500, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Woods wrote: > There is a some what work around here: > http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-interface-customization&t=47450 > I know the best solution would be to fix the minimap but this might help > you to

Re: Making builtin OLE32 work right

2005-02-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike McCormack wrote: I'm a bit worried that our users are content to use native Windows dlls, which doesn't help achieve Wine's goals. Well, for what it's worth, I certainly am not (content to use native Windows dlls). Today I just tested an app (see "Pretty Good Solitaire shootout" thread), a

Re: Making builtin OLE32 work right

2005-02-19 Thread Mike McCormack
Tony Lambregts wrote: Well If I can get around to submitting my "new bugzilla integration" patch this could work right. The idea is to be able to attach multiple apps (versions) to the same bug. Right now we use "url" in Bugzilla to attach a bug to an app and that limits us to on app per bug. Ye