Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Austin English
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > Rosanne DiMesio wrote: >> >> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:30 +0200 >> Gert van den Berg wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie >>> wrote: >>> Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the

Use of broken()

2010-07-15 Thread James McKenzie
All: I've been making statements on the mailing list about some of the less documented features of Wine coding. I've also stated that asking questions is much better than asking permission(in a very round about way.) So here goes: I am building a test for the EM_FINDWORDBREAK function

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread James McKenzie
Rosanne DiMesio wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:30 +0200 Gert van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie wrote: Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the limit to four lines. You should be able to describe a valid bug in that space. Any

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
James Mckenzie wrote: > On that vein of thought, why don't we have a code standard page? I've been > asking this question and maybe this should be my next area of concern after > the release of Wine 1.2 and the reinput of my patches. This way, I can use > my 'years of expertise' and what I've l

WINE - ODBC - MSSQL Server

2010-07-15 Thread Sarves K
Hi I just tried to configure an windows application which requires a connection from a remote mssql server. But I not succeded in it. I am getting Connection failed : SQLState : '01000' SQL Server Error : 10061 . Connection failed : SQLState : '08001' SQL Server Error : 17 ..

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Dan Kegel wrote: > - the FIXME_ONCE guy; I think you and I are giving him the same advice; > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-July/085069.html > so that seems fine. Aha. This is the thread that probably bothered you: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread André Hentschel
Am 15.07.2010 18:29, schrieb James Mckenzie: > On that vein of thought, why don't we have a code standard page? I've been > asking this question and maybe this should be my next area of concern after > the release of Wine 1.2 and the reinput of my patches. This way, I can use > my 'years of ex

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:30 +0200 Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie > wrote: > > Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the limit to > > four lines.  You should be able to describe a valid bug in that space.   > > Anything more, and it

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread James Mckenzie
Henri Verbeet wrote: > >On 14 July 2010 16:26, Dan Kegel wrote: >> If you ask me, >> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971#c371 >> is more objectionable, because it shows the Wine >> community to be ill-mannered and hostile to newbies. >Sure, it could have been worded more carefully, but I

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:09:22 -0700 Dan Kegel wrote: > > As you point out, people don't read... it might be more useful to > put a length limit check so that posting a long comment requires > privileges. Maybe that could be done as simply as "if this is user's > first bug, don't let him post mor

re: Test questions: defining test structures as global variables and quick floating point reference

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Kegel
Misha wrote: > 2) Finally, as you have noticed, per Dan's advice, I have implemented > this function: > ... > These seem, if anything, much simpler, and, I have noticed in the case > of very complicated test data, more accurate. > > I am going to change my code to use these latter functions, even t

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote: > However, if we're talking about being harmful to the project, I think > it's far more insidious and actively harmful to pretend being an > active / respected Wine developer and giving potential new developers > bad advice from that position.

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Gert van den Berg
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie wrote: > Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the limit to four > lines.  You should be able to describe a valid bug in that space.  Anything > more, and it becomes an attachement. 4 lines is horribly short... Especially for po

Re: WineConf 2010

2010-07-15 Thread Jeremy White
> Paris is a big city, where is the venue? We're still negotiating. It looks like it will be the Ibis Paris Bastille Opéra, but but don't consider that certain. (And, sadly, I'm developing a bias against Parisian hospitality workers :-( ). Cheers, Jeremy

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Henri Verbeet
On 14 July 2010 16:26, Dan Kegel wrote: > If you ask me, > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971#c371 > is more objectionable, because it shows the Wine > community to be ill-mannered and hostile to newbies. Sure, it could have been worded more carefully, but I don't buy the "taints us all"

Re: WineConf 2010

2010-07-15 Thread James Mckenzie
Francois Gouget wrote: > >Hi, > > >WineConf 2010 is taking shape: the date has been set and we are now in >the final stages of picking the venue. > >The host city: Paris > Paris is a big city, where is the venue? James McKenzie

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread James Mckenzie
>> Would it be possible to add a line to the text above the comment entry box >> (by the "do not paste logs" warning) telling people more explicitly what >> sorts >> of comments are appropriate, and directing them to the forum for user >> support? >> Yes, I know some people will ignore it anyway,

Test questions: defining test structures as global variables and quick floating point reference

2010-07-15 Thread Misha Koshelev
Dear All: Thank you again for all your help. To remind you, I am working on fixing: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22918 And, as we are currently in code freeze, I have a GitHub repo here in which I am making relevant changes: http://github.com/misha680/wine/commits/master I am going ov

Re: Please remove / block user from bugzilla

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Kegel
Rosanne wrote: > A lot of new users mistake bugzilla for a support forum, and bug reports are > littered with comments that don't belong there. Yes, that's a problem. > Would it be possible to add a line to the text above the comment entry box > (by the "do not paste logs" warning) telling people

WineConf 2010

2010-07-15 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, WineConf 2010 is taking shape: the date has been set and we are now in the final stages of picking the venue. The host city: Paris The date: Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of November So mark the date in your calendar and start booking your plane tickets; this will be the place t

Re: dlls/ntdll/file.c: Use FIXME_ONCE for quieter reports.

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
Saulius Krasuckas wrote: > * On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Chris Robinson wrote: >> * On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:02:59 pm Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: >>> 'FIXME's that contain no variable information are completely redundant >>> after their first report. After the first reminder, the additional >>> rep

Re: dlls/ntdll/file.c: Use FIXME_ONCE for quieter reports.

2010-07-15 Thread Saulius Krasuckas
* On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Chris Robinson wrote: > * On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:02:59 pm Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > > > > 'FIXME's that contain no variable information are completely redundant > > after their first report. After the first reminder, the additional > > reports are just noise. Th

Re: dlls/ntdll/file.c: Use FIXME_ONCE for quieter reports.

2010-07-15 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > If I am not mistaken, Alexandre is the one who decides what gets fixed. > I observe that some movement has already taken place with respect to > bug 15345. In reviewing the various files, some patching has already > been done, so 'WONTFIX' is not really an option. H

Re: dlls/ntdll/file.c: Use FIXME_ONCE for quieter reports.

2010-07-15 Thread Max TenEyck Woodbury
On 07/15/2010 01:13 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: I may be new to Wine, but I have a substantial amount of experience designing, writing and fixing code. I learned programming by fixing my fathers code. I more than understand and accept your desire to decide that '_ON