Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-21 Thread Dr J A Gow
Andreas Mohr wrote: > And exactly this information should probably be stated in the wine-patches > subscription welcome mail. > > "If for some reason the Wine patches you submit fail to get applied, > then we'd appreciate you taking the effort of submitting your current patch > as a new item at b

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Dr J A Gow
After having followed this thread for some time, I feel that there is an aspect that is often missed in the debate. As I see it, it would appear that Wine contributors fall into essentially two camps. There are those who develop Wine for Wine's sake. This category includes the core developers, and

OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Dr J A Gow
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Re: Winetools -> wine doors

2006-03-25 Thread Dr J A Gow
Karl Lattimer wrote: Fair point that it has been useful to you, it has been useful to me also. Here's what I see. * An over complicated bash script, with way too many difficult to maintain parts * An inflexible application, which can only have new applications added to it by the maintainer *

Re: Winetools -> wine doors

2006-03-24 Thread Dr J A Gow
I've looked through the winetools code and it is a clusterf*ck of nonsense. It appears to be in the final stages of code rot, however This "clusterf*ck of nonsense" helped me to get a microcontroller development suite running under Wine, which otherwise would not install natively. After over t

Recently created font problem - anyone see similar?

2006-03-02 Thread Dr J A Gow
Hi, I found that the following patch, committed to CVS on 23/02/06 at 20:33:06 made all my Wine system fonts squashed up and unreadable, which in turn made a mess of formatting in some dialog boxes. I backed the patch out from a current tree and the problem went away. Anyone else see this

Re: Patch: fix for bug #4436 with associated fixes for stream reference counting

2006-02-20 Thread Dr J A Gow
Thanks for the comments. Patch now resubmitted as two chunks as suggested. John. Mike McCormack wrote: Dr J A Gow wrote: FROM: Dr J A Gow PATCH: Provides fix for bug 4436, some reference counting fixes, and now the IStorage correctly handles the following

Re: Regression problems in Easy-PC - UPDATE: Have conformance test that triggers reference counting bug in ole32.dll

2006-02-08 Thread Dr J A Gow
Dr J A Gow wrote: It is as I thought that there is some issue with the object destructor for the storage object being called and not actually releasing the object. I have attached the complete patch to the tests for storage32 to I have just had another thought on this and wonder if anyone

Re: Regression problems in Easy-PC - UPDATE: Have conformance test that triggers reference counting bug in ole32.dll

2006-02-08 Thread Dr J A Gow
Hello All, I wrote this some time ago: Dr J A Gow wrote: Hello All, I have some regression problems relating to Wine in a commercial ECAD app 'Easy-PC' version 9.0, available from http://www.numberone.com Since then I have been doing some more digging into the problem and hav

Re: Regression problems in app - help with debugging?

2006-01-29 Thread Dr J A Gow
Thanks for the advice Dan. I have done this now, and the bug report is entered into the database as bug #4436. As I say I am more than happy to help the developers debug this, providing someone can work with me in respect the operation of this portion of the userland Win32 API with which I have

Regression problems in app - help with debugging?

2006-01-29 Thread Dr J A Gow
Hello All, I have some regression problems relating to Wine in a commercial ECAD app 'Easy-PC' version 9.0, available from http://www.numberone.com The application was quite usable on Crossover Office 4.2, with just some minor dialog corruption. Alpha versions of Wine available at the same t