Autoresolving our 554 old UNCONFIRMED bugs

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Kegel
We have 554 unconfirmed bugs older than 90 days. Most of these are likely to be obsolete. It would be really easy to write a script to ping the people who submitted those bugs, and ask them to update the bug if it's still valid. If there's no reply in two weeks, we could mark the bug 'resolved aba

re: Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Kegel
Alexandre wrote: > Bugzilla has had a good cleanup lately (thanks guys!) and most of the > irrelevant bugs have been closed, so please have a look at the > remaining ones to see if there's anything you know how to fix. I'll be updating the page http://kegel.com/wine/qa/ with bugzilla statistics

Re: Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Kegel
On 9/30/05, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll be updating the page > http://kegel.com/wine/qa/ > with bugzilla statistics > > State2005.09.29 > Unconfirmed 836 > New 403 > Assigned68 > Resolved421 > Closed 1476 (Sorry 'bout that. I'm not used to gmail's interf

Documentation on DIBENG.DLL exported functions

2005-09-30 Thread Alex Villací­s Lasso
Could somebody please point me to an online documentation on the functions exported by DIBENG.DLL and how an userspace application could use them? I want to evaluate whether a possible DIB engine for Wine could use the DIBENG.DLL API. I googled and all I find are reports of GPFs involving DIBEN

Re: Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Tony Lambregts
Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Folks, > > I just released 20050930, this should be considered the pre-0.9 > release, so please give it some good testing. In particular, please > test the things that new users will encounter first, like the > automatic .wine creation and winecfg. &

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Kuba Ober
> >>2. The sockets trick was the simplest way I could figure out how to do > >>IPC between a linux process and a wine process. > >>However, is there are > >>any better or faster way to do this? As far as I know I can't use > > > > Your .exe can make regular linux syscalls as it's really running on

Re: OLEAUT32: add additional condition for creation of interface

2005-09-30 Thread Steven Edwards
On 9/30/05, Alex Villací­s Lasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch is required in order to run any application that embeds > DBGRID32.OCX from MS VisualBasic 5 or 6 > > Changelog: > * Add additional condition for creation of interface A patch would be nice =) Thanks Steven

Re: Off-topic, Was: Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Walt Ogburn
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Jakob Eriksson wrote: > Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: > > > > > > > You can try installing and configuring this X server. It will not > > output anything or use a console, but will behave otherwise like a > > valid X server. Then you should point the DISPLAY environment variab

Re: Rpm's for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-30 Thread Dimi Paun
From: "Dieter Komendera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Any comments, improvements, suggestions are very welcome! FC4 is a popular distro, we _need_ an official binary build for it for the upcoming beta. If Vincent is not going to do it, we need to get these official build uploaded to SF together with all

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Ken Larson
Kuba Ober wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2005 05:37, Ken Larson wrote: I'm using wine to access a particular proprietary DLL (I don't have the source for it) on Linux. The way I'm doing this is to write an EXE that wraps the DLL, and makes all of the functions available via socket request and re

Re: freedce-win32 - progress!

2005-09-30 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i am making the "amateur" version of progress: i just had echo_server.exe run for the first time on win32: echo_client.exe has been running successfully since this morning. That's really great! //Jakob

Off-topic, Was: Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: You can try installing and configuring this X server. It will not output anything or use a console, but will behave otherwise like a valid X server. Then you should point the DISPLAY environment variable to this X server, and this will keep your app happy. Howeve

Subject: Re: Newsleecher Installer Failing

2005-09-30 Thread josephblack
For information on debugging, these official docs may help http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-devel/debugging http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-devel/index http://wiki.winehq.org/DebuggingTutorials there is an unofficial list of examples from the mailing lists, here. http://wine-wiki.org/i

WWN: Rpm's for Fedora Core 4

2005-09-30 Thread Dieter Komendera
Hi people, I read in the today's Wine Weekly News something about rpms for Fedora Core 4. In august I begann building some for FC 4. I built rpm's for the july and the august version. The rpm's were based on Vincent Beron's. They were downloaded about 700 times from my server. There is also a mirr

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ken, On Sunday 25 Sep 2005 10:37, Ken Larson wrote: > 2. The sockets trick was the simplest way I could figure out how to > do IPC between a linux process and a wine process. However, is > there are any better or faster way to do this? As far as I know I > can't use winelib because I don't ha

Re: Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Brian Vincent schreef: > On 9/30/05, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We also still need many documentation updates, so please consider >> helping with that. > > > Is anyone actually working on this? I might have some time this > weekend, but I don't want to step on any toes

Re: Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/30/05, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We also still need many documentation updates, so please consider > helping with that. Is anyone actually working on this? I might have some time this weekend, but I don't want to step on any toes. -Brian

Re: enumerate the substorage transforms

2005-09-30 Thread Mike McCormack
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Do you really need this define? It looks like it's unused (not mentioning that it breaks Wine rules on using unicode APIs). I thought that too before I sent the patch, so I removed it and recompiled just to make sure. It's used by the following definition in include

Re: enumerate the substorage transforms

2005-09-30 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Mike McCormack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- dlls/msi/action.c 30 Sep 2005 10:32:41 - 1.211 > +++ dlls/msi/action.c 30 Sep 2005 11:33:20 - > @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defaul > #define REG_PROGRESS_VALUE 13200 > #define COMPONENT_PROGRESS_VALUE 24000 > > +

Re: Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
I think we need some more clean up of bugzilla, we need to close bugs till 2003/04 which have not updates since 6 months. And also those which cannot be replicatable. bye, Vijay On 9/30/05, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I just released 20050930,

Release plans

2005-09-30 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Folks, I just released 20050930, this should be considered the pre-0.9 release, so please give it some good testing. In particular, please test the things that new users will encounter first, like the automatic .wine creation and winecfg. Even if you normally build from source, please for once

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Kuba Ober
On Sunday 25 September 2005 05:37, Ken Larson wrote: > I'm using wine to access a particular proprietary DLL (I don't have the > source for it) on Linux. The way I'm doing this is to write an EXE that > wraps the DLL, and makes all of the functions available via socket > request and response messa

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Ken Larson
cool, can you point me to where i can find the info on how to easily set up this cross-compiler on linux? thanks, Ken Richard Cohen wrote: Ken Larson wrote: Well I am actually using a command-line with CL to compile it, but it was true that I had a WinMain instead of main. I've changed the

Re: freedce-win32 - progress!

2005-09-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:41:17AM +0200, Jakob Eriksson wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > >i am making the "amateur" version of progress: i just had > >echo_server.exe run for the first time on win32: echo_client.exe > >has been running successfully since this morning. > > > > >

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Mike McCormack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like the only dependency is from the PostMessageA in > dlls/winsock/async.c #514. > > The windows version of ws2_32.dll does not link to user32.dll however, > it appears to load it on demand. I can see the following strings in it: > > US

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Richard Cohen
Ken Larson wrote: Well I am actually using a command-line with CL to compile it, but it was true that I had a WinMain instead of main. I've changed the WinMain to main, but this doesn't seem to be the issue. The issue appears to be initializing winsock. The following simple main program, whe

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Mike McCormack
Remove the call to WSAStartup, and the program requires no X display. As I said, I know winsock uses hidden windows handles to do some things, which is pretty ugly architecturally. However, it seems like it should be possible to not have a display in this case. any ideas? It looks like t

Re: headless question, and IPC question

2005-09-30 Thread Ken Larson
Well I am actually using a command-line with CL to compile it, but it was true that I had a WinMain instead of main. I've changed the WinMain to main, but this doesn't seem to be the issue. The issue appears to be initializing winsock. The following simple main program, when compiled with CL,