Re: make_makefiles: Ignore backups of edited files.

2007-01-07 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Sunday 07 January 2007 13:16, Robert Shearman wrote: > --- > tools/make_makefiles |1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Since the "*~" files are not generated by the build process this is perhaps not the right place to do it. Rather each developer should ignore such

Re: ntdll: Added stubs for the Rtl*GenericTable* functions

2006-12-24 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Monday 25 December 2006 00:23, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Patrik Stridvall wrote: > >>> In any case having them stubbed in better than nothing. I don't think > >> > >> Not really. As I said before, if a program uses these functions, then > >>

Re: ntdll: Added stubs for the Rtl*GenericTable* functions

2006-12-24 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:53, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Patrik Stridvall wrote: > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 05:37, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > >> Is there are any reason why do you need this functions at all? According > >> to ddk they are part of "Installable

Re: winex11.drv: Only try to initialize OpenGL if the display has the GLX extension.

2006-12-24 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:17, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > I have played a bit with Mesa and it indeed works fine without the GLX > extension (just a software renderer ofcourse). I know what error you are > seeing for instance the nvidia drivers output it when GLX isn't present. It > really d

Re: winex11.drv: Only try to initialize OpenGL if the display has the GLX extension.

2006-12-24 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:55, Chris Robinson wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 01:12, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if checking for the GLX extension is such a good idea as it > > is possible to use OpenGL without having the GLX extension. For instance > > when pla

Re: winex11.drv: Only try to initialize OpenGL if the display has the GLX extension.

2006-12-24 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:12, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if checking for the GLX extension is such a good idea as it is > possible to use OpenGL without having the GLX extension. For instance when > plain Mesa is used. OK. The thing is that if I have the OpenGL librari

Re: ntdll: Added stubs for the Rtl*GenericTable* functions

2006-12-24 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Sunday 24 December 2006 05:37, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Is there are any reason why do you need this functions at all? According > to ddk they are part of "Installable File System Drivers". This is a > kernel level thing only and no user app should use these routines. Should, perhaps. Does, we

RE: question about copyright and code, is this legal?

2003-10-13 Thread Patrik Stridvall
> > Protecting trivially collectable collections of fact would serve > > no purpose that I can see... > > Here, if the collection as a whole requires trivial effort to > collect, it's > not protected. It's the aggregate effort that counts. The > problem with the MS > tables is that from what h

RE: question about copyright and code, is this legal?

2003-10-10 Thread Patrik Stridvall
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:53, Patrik Stridvall wrote: > > > The significant effort requirement is for EACH fact seen by ITSELF. > > This is certainly not the case in Australia, NZ and the UK. So you can have protection on collections of truely trivial facts? I severly doub

RE: question about copyright and code, is this legal?

2003-10-08 Thread Patrik Stridvall
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:07, Patrik Stridvall wrote: > > [correct summary of the law deleted] > > > As far as Wine is concerned though I can't think of > > any Windows API that: > > 1. Returns pure facts (not having any unique expression) > > 2.

RE: question about copyright and code, is this legal?

2003-10-03 Thread Patrik Stridvall
> On October 3, 2003 09:07 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote: > > As far as Wine is concerned though I can't think of > > any Windows API that: > > 1. Returns pure facts (not having any unique expression) > > 2. Would fulfill the requirement of needed a significant > &g

RE: question about copyright and code, is this legal?

2003-10-03 Thread Patrik Stridvall
> Say I have a piece of code, x (which is copyright) which > always returns the > same output for a given input (e.g. a function that implements a math > formula or a function that retrieves some value from an > internal data table > stored in the dll or whatever) > Lets then say that I havent