Re: Vista/w2k8/w7 users, please test mmdevapi capture

2011-08-15 Thread Brian Vincent
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:07 AM, wrote: > Dear users of machines with Vista/w2k8/w7, It looks like I got one "test failed" followed by an ok one on the second run. This is 32 bit, Win7, on a Dell Vostro V13 laptop with a "Realtek High Definition Audio" driver version 6.0.1.5958. -Brian C:\Us

Ars Technica article

2011-06-24 Thread Brian Vincent
Here's some light reading for your weekend enjoyment. I found this on Ars Technica and thought it was a pretty good summary of some stuff from Microsoft's past and a pretty good guess at how some future technology pieces fit together. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/windows-8-for-so

Re: RFC: Adding Mac support to secur32/schannel.c

2011-02-03 Thread Brian Vincent
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Juan Lang wrote: >> As Henri said, it's that it's a set of external dependencies (not just one; >> GnuTLS has its own dependencies) and that they are security-related.  To the >> greatest extent practical, security-related libraries should come from one's >> dis

Re: Keeping people from trying iTunes in Wine?

2010-09-10 Thread Brian Vincent
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Ben Klein wrote: > Wine cannot afford to hand-hold users too much. Let Codeweavers worry > about this for Crossover. Yes we can afford to hold users hands. In fact, we should be holding users hands. >From a usability standpoint, Linux sucks. Fortunately, it's s

Re: Should we expect Liberation fonts to be installed?

2010-08-09 Thread Brian Vincent
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: >> This might work for Linux, but these fonts are not installed on any >> MacOSX version that I'm aware of.  This might break Wine useage for >> Macs.  It might also break it for Solaris as well. > > It should only break in a way that makes it a

Re: Release plans

2010-05-12 Thread Brian Vincent
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Edward Savage wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Scott Ritchie > wrote: > > > > It seems to me what we really want is more than a changelog but a proper > > release announcement. I want a journalist who has hardly heard of Wine > > to read the page and un

Re: why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Vincent
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Mike Kronenberg < mike.kronenb...@kronenberg.org> wrote: > OS X > My main concern is to have usable builds. Ie, usable without the need of a > terminal. People on OS X don't care about how stuff works, it just has to > work. > > Vanilla build > I totally agree that

Re: Wine MIME handling

2009-06-16 Thread Brian Vincent
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Roderick Colenbrander < thunderbir...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the past few days I have been looking at MIME handling in Wine. A > program I'm using uses CreateProcess to launch a pdf file and I would > like to use the default native pdf viewer. I think it would b

Re: [Article] WINE and the importance of application compatibility

2009-05-18 Thread Brian Vincent
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Steven Edwards wrote: > doubt it. The situation I face with my day job, is that we can't even > get support for certain applications in VMware. As soon as we say "we > have a virtualized cluster" they balk. And we are talking about > situations where we are spendin

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Vincent
Oh, by the way, I was using Fedora Core 10. I was pretty impressed with the distro - my Intel wireless card worked out of the box and so did sound. That's the first time I've had that happen on a Dell Latitude notebook. However, sound in Wine didn't work at all. I made absolutely no effort to fix

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Vincent
Dan - I just a presentation last week at our local LUG and here's what I did. (And for reference, this is the first time in almost 2 years I've had Linux and Wine loaded on my laptop - I like what you guys did with the place.) 1. I gave the presentation in Powerpoint 2003 and CrossOver Office.

Re: LWN Timeline for 2008: Wine 1.0 made it!

2009-01-22 Thread Brian Vincent
On 1/9/09, Francois Gouget wrote: > Sure they carry the Wine announcements, and occasionally mention an > article about Wine in the Press section. But real articles about Wine? > Nope. One almost gets the feeling that they don't like Wine for some > reason... There was a full lead-in article in t

Re: WineHQ redesign

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Vincent
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jeremy Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have committed my work for the WineHQ redesign. I've also updated the > AppDB and Bugzilla codebases with the new theme. > By the way, the new site looks great on a Blackberry using Opera Mini or even the regular Blackbe

Re: RFC: Proposed new web site design

2008-11-24 Thread Brian Vincent
Random thoughts: - I like it. - I agree that there should be a very short description of what Wine does. Probably summarizing it in 2 sentences or so where the "Run Windows Everywhere" currently is. Something like, "Run Windows applications on Linux and OS X without installing Windows. Wine is

Re: Website down

2008-06-18 Thread Brian Vincent
Sure: http://www.winehq.org/webalizer -Brian On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for "geek value", is it possible to have a graph of how the slashdot > effect look like? I mean a graph of the hourly web hit statistics or > something. > > Be very glad

Re: How long does it take you to compile wine?

2008-06-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found a nice graph of Wine's codebase size over time: > http://www.ohloh.net/projects/wine/analyses/latest > Looks like it's just about exactly doubled since that > last measurement in late 2002. Anyone else notice that lin

Re: SoC idea: enhance the Program Manager, winefile and friends

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Vincent
Hasn't someone else somewhere in the world already written an explorer replacement and we could just get them to open source it so we can include it with Wine? No need to reinvent the wheel. -Brian On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Juan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From time to time the d

Wine font license

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Vincent
Right now on our fonts we say they're LGPL. (Look for the LangName attribute in the .sfd file.) We might want to make a modification to that. Here's what the FSF has to say about it: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException Or, to just copy and paste that info: -

Re: WWN license issue

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Vincent
On Jan 18, 2008 9:26 AM, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that you mention it, since we are trying to move the AppDB to the Affero > GPL v3, it would be nice to have the WWN covered by the similar GLP v3 :) Everything I wrote was GPL v2 and I'm quite happy with that.

Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Brian Vincent
Until someone comes up with the addition to winecfg to edit the Run and RunOnce keys (and it really seems like that is what we need), we should probably detect if those keys have changed and pop up a dialog on the next wineboot that says: "The Run or RunOnce registry keys have changed, probably bec

Re: Wine Weekly News

2007-12-05 Thread Brian Vincent
On Dec 5, 2007 8:20 AM, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Their e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] They'll have to decide how to track the > changes, but in any case the code should be in soon. What about downgrades? Regressions happen. It'd be terrible one week to promise som

Re: Asking Valve for Steam Survey Results

2007-11-14 Thread Brian Vincent
On Nov 13, 2007 4:45 PM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know whom we can contact at Valve for more specific results? Here's the answer from Valve to your question: Hey Brian, we would be more than happy to help. I just did a quick query for the audio device and found

Re: What happened to the Wine Newsletters?

2007-10-11 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/10/07, Alex Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm potentially willing to > write the WWN. I've been reading all of patches, devel, and bugs for > about a year now, so I keep pretty up to date with what's going on. I'm > a Senior at UIUC and my m

Re: .NET going open source(sort of)

2007-10-04 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/4/07, Stephan Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But just because code, that implements the same functionality looks > similar?? Well of COURSE it looks similar...it is trying to do the same > thing! > > I mean seriously, how does any of this stuff have legal ground? Is the > US system serious

Re: practical book on Wine/crossover

2007-10-04 Thread Brian Vincent
e original outline to change the scope of the book. -Brian Vincent.

Re: WineConf this weekend

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/2/07, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just being brutal about this - in years past, I felt we > made a critical mistake in trying to do streaming audio or video. > > It never worked, was a distraction, and I'm not sure it ever > benefited anyone. Hehe.. now this year I'm on the oth

Re: Liberation

2007-06-15 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/15/07, Hans Leidekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since that is very unlikely I'd say we should go for symlinks to save space and time. We can resort to full copies when we find an app that needs it. While this strikes me as 100% a packaging issue, it just seems like something really prone

Re: mandriva rpm wine 0.9.38

2007-06-04 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/3/07, marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I have still no way to upload the mandriva wine rpm to the official winehq download server. Fixed. -Brian

Re: Is Wine a platform for Codeweaver to make money?! Please help me understand.

2007-03-29 Thread Brian Vincent
On 3/28/07, Sasan Iman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know that if you fiddle around with the stock release long enough you can get MS Office working on Wine as I have on a number of occasions, but shouldn't making this work for everyone be the highest priority for getting Wine to be adopted more w

Re: DIB Engine & GSoC

2007-03-10 Thread Brian Vincent
On 3/2/07, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't really know anything about the DIB engine or the engineering problem in getting it accepted except that it is going to be a massive beast and almost impossible to implement in small changes. Yup, I'm dumb about it too. My $.02: with

Re: Work legalities

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Vincent
On 3/7/07, Nathan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm worried about the copyright of any external work I do, so I need a little advice. What do I need from my employer to clear me to work on wine? Is something verbal ok, or should I get it in writing? Is your employer Microsoft? If so, I'

Re: [Wine] www.winehq.com newsletter dead forever?

2007-01-17 Thread Brian Vincent
I would love for someone to take it over, but I'm not sure that'll happen. Life is calming down a bit to the point where I could probably write it again if I had Internet access at home. But I don't and getting it isn't that high of a priority for me. So maybe sometime there will be a resurrect

Re: Wine HQ server.

2006-12-11 Thread Brian Vincent
I don't know; that strikes me as overkill. We do have rack space for more servers, so we certainly could drop more in; if someone wants to buy 1U servers, we can put those in. Looking at the traffic reports, it seems like the WineHQ server is serving A LOT more than it ever has. We're at 300GB

Re: Putting my hand up for WWN

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Vincent
On 12/4/06, Edward Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm prepared to write the WWN releases in Brian Vincent seeming absence if it pleases the powers that be. It pleases the powers that be. Things have been a little out of control here for the past few months. I've had inte

Re: advertising on winehq

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/24/06, Tom Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May I ask what you guys think about us starting to run some google ads on winehq ? I think Google would probably display some nice advertisements for merlot. -Brian

Re: Wine translations statistics

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/25/06, Mikołaj Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I could try to do it. However I would need to know where could I find some winehq.org pages source codes that could be used as an example, how to send my code (also through wine-patches?) and how to update the data files for the pages

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/20/06, Vijay Kiran Kamuju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some kinda patch management system would help. I think like bugzilla. It'd better have an emacs interface ;) -Brian

Re: winehq.org Announcements

2006-09-05 Thread Brian Vincent
On 8/30/06, EA Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is there no release announcement for the 0.9.20 release of wine on the homepage? I'm moving, that's why. I'm only now getting situated. WWN needs to get written, some other minors updates need to happen, and I need to figure out how to get

Re: FEAR Combat

2006-08-23 Thread Brian Vincent
On 8/23/06, Jeremy Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, FEAR Combat does not seem to include them. What's the redistribution license on that part of the SDK? Could those DLL's be included with binary packages of Wine and just turn this into a packaging issue? -Brian

KDE Wine Kcontrol module

2006-07-20 Thread Brian Vincent
ting / etc. For example, the two things that come to mind are that it should implement everything in winecfg and also have a button to pop up regedit. Maybe it should also be able to pop up taskmgr too. -Brian Vincent

Re: Have to install mozilla by hand to use builtin iexplore?

2006-07-03 Thread Brian Vincent
On 7/3/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Isn't wine supposed to install mozilla by itself, or something? Based on this patch: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/attachments/20060630/e66603b1/0d89f0ee8b53f7c54a07bd81c5b7f2ea56f64eeb.diff I'd say your registry hadn't been proper

Re: ntoskrnl status

2006-06-15 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/15/06, Mario Demontis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any news about ntoskrnl.exe support? As far as I can understand it's not yet integrated... Are there any new patches? Read here first: http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/047262.html Read here next: http://www.winehq.com/p

Re: Will pay $$ for fix of Magic: The Gathering Online bug

2006-06-14 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/14/06, Mike McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hehe. If you're compiling Wine yourself, do I get $200 for telling you to install the latest version of Fontforge, and make sure recent freetype libraries are on your system? I think there might be more to it than that according to the AppD

Re: Broken FC5 packages - stay clear.

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/13/06, n0dalus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that most users would just install 'wine' and use it. I don't think it's common for people to get confused over which of all the packages they should install. Yeah, it is confusing. Just a quick example. Let's say I want to install Samba.

Re: Broken FC5 packages - stay clear.

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/13/06, Andreas Bierfert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hm maybe it is... but then I am no wine crack... splitting stuff up is something you do in packaging and what really is encouraged by distributions. Splitting stuff makes users happy and I can see why... ;) First off, thank you very much f

Re: RFC - wine-macos mailing list

2006-06-01 Thread Brian Vincent
On 6/1/06, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Specifically, should we create a 'wine-macos' mailing list? I think the biggest concern here is that we've fragmented things before and we know we suck at maintaining multiple lists/forums for the same thing. Examples - wine-users & c.e.m.wine

Re: Set up wine-macosx? (Re: How are we doing?)

2006-05-30 Thread Brian Vincent
On 5/30/06, Jim White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Was there a single warm fuzzy from anyone on this list? No. Fortunately we get them from Macfolk on a regular basis. Press/news announcements almost never garner warm fuzzies on the devel list. That's not to say they're not appreciated; I think

Press: Linux Journal - Running Sound Apps

2006-05-25 Thread Brian Vincent
I just saw the May issue of Linux Journal and it has an article titled "Running Sound Applications Under Wine". It's written by Dave Phillips and it's pretty good. Things seemed to work about as well as you'd expect, well, maybe even better than a lot of you would expect. Programs installed ok,

Re: License question

2006-05-22 Thread Brian Vincent
On 5/22/06, Yuriy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I might be making a configuration module for wine for KDE System Settings based on winecfg as a SoC project for Kubuntu, but I just realized that wine is LGPL and my project would have to be GPL, so I need to know how to reconcile that. Any input ASA

Re: Tahoma font

2006-04-27 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/27/06, Louis. Lenders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, next week i have quite some (travel)time i have > to kill, so i thought maybe i could use the time to > add tahoma font to wine (needed for Steam). I played > around a bit with fontforge and a basically i think > i get how to create

Re: Web forums - simple suggestion

2006-04-24 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/23/06, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so I've followed this thread, and I havea range of thoughts and what I think is a simple solution.mod +1: InformativeI'm just going to agree with the whole post since you usually don't hear from people who agree. Third, I think the biggest p

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-17 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/16/06, Rich Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I must say, the turn this conversation has taken is interesting.  In responseto what was written above, it does seem to me a curious precedent Alexandrehas set.  After all, wasn't Wine developed to allow people to get AWAY from Windows?  Yet, when

Re: tasklet - sfd2ttf - eliminate dependency on FontForge (for anybody who's interested)

2006-04-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/13/06, Molle Bestefich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, thank you for that explanation.And I guess that the FontForge license prohibits using pieces of codefrom there, right?Nope - read Mike's earlier email.  George Williams agreed to relicense the necessary bits under LGPL. -Brian

Re: tasklet - sfd2ttf - eliminate dependency on FontForge (for anybody who's interested)

2006-04-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/13/06, n0dalus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't we just distribute thettf files directly?Because we're masochists and prefer to build tools.It's definitely the simple solution and we're capable of doing that.  There used to be issues with having binary

Re: tasklet - sfd2ttf - eliminate dependency on FontForge (for anybody who's interested)

2006-04-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/13/06, Molle Bestefich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2.) Seems like slight overkill, considering that the user can justinstall FontForge.What is wrong with the simpler solution you mentioned:> * put a warning about this in configure This issue that we can really do decent font support with ou

Re: DNSAPI: implement DnsQuery_UTF8 (review only)

2006-04-11 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/11/06, Juan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it can, with some caveats: the registry has to be set up correctly,and the name has to be NetBIOS-legal (15 characters or fewer, no NetBIOSspecial characters, which are different than DNS ones.)  It's especially the fact that the registry has to

Re: WINE & Microsoft WGA

2006-04-05 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/5/06, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way we could ask Microsoft to use "Wine" instead of "WINE"? You just did ;) -Brian

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy

2006-04-02 Thread Brian Vincent
On 3/31/06, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone else have any objections or other thoughts on it?My $.02 is that it's necessary.  Last year I had a chance for someone local to make a donation but they needed to do it to a registered 501c3 organization.  Well, the money ended up going to

Re: CVS EU Server

2006-03-23 Thread Brian Vincent
On 3/23/06, Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uhoh, with my own little server problem I now seem to have startedsome wildfire...No, no wildfire here.  I'm still one of those heathens using CVS too.What I meant was use git to clone the existing git repository to the local rhlx01box.  Then I n

Re: CVS EU Server

2006-03-23 Thread Brian Vincent
On 3/23/06, Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welll... not quite: the very high FC5 download number is not the problem,rather the server got upgraded a couple days ago (to FC5, too), which brokecvsup (SEGV). Would it be worth skipping cvsup and moving to git? -Brian  

Re: "Windows Everywhere" foresaw Wine back in 1993?

2006-02-09 Thread Brian Vincent
On 2/9/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- snip ---To lure Independent Software Vendors, "Windows Everywhere" offers a kindof "magic dust" that will end their cross-platform support problems.Microsoft claims that Windows programs will run on any computer with nothing but a simple recompile

Re: LostWages: remove third party downloads section from our download page

2006-01-23 Thread Brian Vincent
Along similar lines, do we want to add a link for MacOS X going to the Darwine page?  It appears they're tracking our releases, at least for PPC.  It might clear up some of the questions coming to wine-devel about whether Wine will be supported. -Brian

Re: Question regarding the Wine Vs WineLib performance

2006-01-04 Thread Brian Vincent
On 1/3/06, Ananth M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I converted the dll into .so and compiled and linked this .so > with win32 program using WineLib and Wineg++ > The timing that was taken to execute the function exported by the > dll ( through .so ) is almost two times, compr

Re: [lostwages] Remove winetools from download page

2005-12-21 Thread Brian Vincent
On 12/21/05, Sven Paschukat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, please don't see the value of winetools only from a developers > view. Normal linux users don't want to test builtin dlls, they just want > to get their windows apps working on linux. IMHO it's better for Wine if > the users become an

Re: has the LGPL licence fell through ?

2005-12-20 Thread Brian Vincent
> Wine is LGPL as I understand it. Codeweavers takes advantage of that, as do > other companies I imagine (Transgaming?). What's one more company basing a > product on Wine code, provided they follow the license they agreed to when > they > received the code? > > Give them a chance is all I am s

Re: Create new mailing list wine-isv?

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Vincent
You're secretly just trying to get me to finish the commercial page I promised, huh? I'll vote against a wine-isv list. History has shown we're not responsible enough to have many mailing lists. Sure, if it takes off.. great. But more than likely we'll be having a discussion on wine-devel in 18

Re: Outreach to windows ISVs

2005-12-12 Thread Brian Vincent
On 12/11/05, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the Desktop Architects Meeting at OSDL, one of the > big topics was how to make life easier for ISVs that want > to start supporting Linux. So I put together a little page We discussed something similar last year at WineConf about putting tog

Re: wine-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 151

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Vincent
On 11/30/05, Andrea Capiluppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm involved in a study of the evolution of wine, based on its releases: so > far i tried to collect what i could find on the web, but some of the earliest > points i'm still missing: maybe somebody involved in the development of wine > sti

Re: Question about ~/.wine/dosdevices/

2005-11-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 11/13/05, Peter Berg Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am missing the idear behind how devices are suppose to work. Wine User Guide section on that: http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wineusr-guide/config-wine-main#AEN265 If any of that documentation is unclear, let me know and I'll rewrit

Re: OSDL's Desktop Linux architects meeting

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Vincent
On 11/9/05, Robert Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On December 1-2, OSDL is hosting a meeting for the desktop architects from > the various Linux desktop organizations to help decide on ways to improve > and promote Linux on the Desktop. An electronic copy of the invitation can I think it

Re: New eject command issue

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Vincent
On 11/7/05, Christian Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The error (21) suggest the drive is not ready or is finishing something. > Could you add a delay before the ejection IOCTL ? No difference with this: if (!DeviceIoControl( handle, IOCTL_STORAGE_MEDIA_REMOVAL, &removal, sizeof(removal),

Re: New eject command issue

2005-11-05 Thread Brian Vincent
On 11/5/05, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then "wine eject" doesn't work the first time I try it. The second > time I run it, it works fine. Maybe I'm just unclear on the usage. It appears the first time it unmounts the drive and then the second time

Re: New eject command issue

2005-11-05 Thread Brian Vincent
On 11/1/05, Christian Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to use the new eject command and this does not seem to work. Odd thing here as well. Fedora Core 4. This is wine CVS as of a few days ago, I don't think anything has changed in this area. If dosdevices contains a normal: lrwxrwxrw

Re: Are Visual Basic install problems common?

2005-10-20 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/20/05, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can understand the problem better. My first app is Church Windows; > it's difficult to install because it assumes you have MFC40, MFC42, > and the VB Runtime already installed, because it checks the IE6 version, It might be interesting to begin

Re: wine / Linux kernel interaction

2005-10-20 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/20/05, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me, the right answer is for WINE to emulate TWAIN and the other APIs on > top of SANE. Um... we already do. Of course, it requires xscanimage for the front end and that should probably be updated to use a newer sane-frontends interface.

Re: Downloading Mozilla ActiveX

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Vincent
On 18 Oct 2005 19:28:51 -0400, Vincent Béron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Newman wasn't very fond of hosting it on winehq either. Sourceforge > looked like the best place regarding capacity, but the automatic > download part is a problem with it (unless we put it on our webspace > over there, but I

Re: Downloading Mozilla ActiveX

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/18/05, Vitaliy Margolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that server has enough capacity to handle all Wine users? Will it be > there > for a long time? No idea about capacity, but the URL hasn't changed in years. We could take a clue from Codeweavers and put in a winehq.org URL that simp

Re: Downloading Mozilla ActiveX

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/18/05, Marcelo Duarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you edit the registry and add: > [Software\\Wine\\shdocvw] 1089668326 > "MozillaUrl"="http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/MozillaControl16.exe"; > > The download functions normally. Sounds like that needs to be in wine.inf -Brian

Re: docs

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/14/05, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to step on any toes, but I plan on redoing the User Guide > this weekend. Mostly it'll just be an extension of the existing stuff > I wrote and bringing it up to date. I figure I can probably bang it &g

docs

2005-10-14 Thread Brian Vincent
I don't want to step on any toes, but I plan on redoing the User Guide this weekend. Mostly it'll just be an extension of the existing stuff I wrote and bringing it up to date. I figure I can probably bang it out in a few hours. Is anyone else close to having docs completed? -Brian

Re: IRC Log of channel #winehq

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/5/05, Dieter Komendera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I want to ask you, what you think about an irc-bot in the > channel, that logs everything that's written. Mike had one before and because of it we decided not to log the IRC channel. Since IRC is a rather informal atmosphere, we figured

Re: Release plans

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/3/05, Jonathan Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo builds everything in some sandbox in /var/tmp and then copies > everything in the right places. Wine seems to think files will stay in > that directory altough they won't. However I'm quite sure everything > will work as expected. Ther

Re: Migrate website documentation to the Wiki

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/3/05, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm willing to move every simple textual (static content) page from the > > website to the Wiki and link from the website to the corresponding > > pages. I'll agree for the same reasons Jeremy cited. The static pages are relatively static an

Re: Release plans

2005-10-02 Thread Brian Vincent
> I don't even know how to debug this-- or even if it needs debugging-- as > I don't know how to tell the difference between how Wine would act if > the libraries cannot be found because of a lack of this update, and how > Wine acts when the environment has been correctly updated. My $.02 is if yo

Re: Release plans

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/1/05, Molle Bestefich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone has the copy of IDA that the current guide mentions, or know > whether it is functionally equivalent with some other product, please > speak up. That's odd.. Anyway, the filename here has "demo" in it, so I'm not sure if this is t

Re: Release plans

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Vincent
On 10/1/05, Molle Bestefich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question is, how do I convey updates to the documentation to you guys? Tom described it here: http://www.winehq.com/?issue=291#Docs%20Needed -Brian

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: Problem Resolve

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/29/05, Molle Bestefich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, it seems a bit rude that the 20050830 CVS drop is *still* > on the front page of http://www.winehq.com/, even after everyone knows > that it's missing a patch to compile cleanly. > > Why not just add the patch to the package and sl

Re: Documentation volunteer(s) needed

2005-09-26 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/23/05, josephblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > www.wine-wiki.org has been compiling tips from the wine mailing lists. > I had planned to use it to update the documentation, but keeping up > with the lists has kept me busy. > > After some discussion, Jason (the owner) has confirmed he would li

Re: Documentation volunteer(s) needed

2005-09-20 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/20/05, Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't such a book be mostly obsolete within a year of publication? That's > almost like with those linux kernel development books: in 2 years timeframe > they are mostly paperweights, unless you're interested only in 'big ideas' > rather than de

Re: Documentation volunteer(s) needed

2005-09-20 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/20/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > YES!!! Where do I sign up? Hopefully I can make this easier on someone. Also, I'm cc'ing Scott Ritchie since he mentioned at one point he was interested in this. The docs now live in a separate CVS tree, I don't have the details for that.

Re: Web Server Back Online

2005-09-06 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/2/05, Stefan Leichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to get the timestamps back into the mailing list archive? It is > useful e.g. for regression testing to see when patches were committed to cvs. Yeah, it's actually a showstopper for me too and I asked the same thing. It's exac

Re: Wine-20050830 Compile error

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Vincent
On 8/30/05, John Shillinglaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bug system under winehq.org still seems to be down. It's fine. It's your DNS. -Brian

Re: Lines of code in Wine?

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Vincent
On 8/15/05, Tom Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at our line count so I could update the history page and the FAQ > with new up to date numbers. And my numbers come no where close to > what has been reported in the past. anyone care to generate the > current line count ? Alexand

Re: Re[2]: As to change $HOME/.wine for $HOME/.my-configuration ?

2005-08-12 Thread Brian Vincent
On 8/12/05, Vitaliy Margolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who says root? # -Brian

co-author needed

2005-08-10 Thread Brian Vincent
It's been a while since I mentioned anything about the Wine book I'm working on. First, I've lost a co-author. Ira had been working on 5 chapters about Winelib. He actually had a lot written and re-written. However, he's backed out of it. So this is a plea for anyone interested in writing thos

Re: usp10.dll regression

2005-07-31 Thread Brian Vincent
On 7/31/05, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I stubbed it out trying to get the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer to work. The > viewer will open now > but PowerPPT presentations still don't load. I guess we need to switch the > dlloverrides until > someone feels like implementing it. I saw

Re: Buttons in window title bar

2005-07-21 Thread Brian Vincent
On 7/21/05, Paul Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing better than reading the code. I've added a key > HKCU\Wine\Fonts\Replacements and a String Value "Marlett" with "Wine > Marlett" as the data. Now the buttons show up nicely. Does that need to go in wine.inf? -Brian

Re: file locking

2005-07-13 Thread Brian Vincent
On 13 Jul 2005 17:18:19 +0200, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want mandatory locking then yes this has to be done at > the filesystem level, by setting the proper mount option and > permissions. man fcntl should give you the gritty details. Right. What I meant was if I'm o

file locking

2005-07-12 Thread Brian Vincent
I've been playing around with file locking and Wine, namely the fact that Wine doesn't have any. Is there any way around this, maybe placing the burden on a filesystem? If I wanted to share files between two different users (say with something dumb like file permissions 666), is there any way to

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