Re: D3D via Gallium

2010-09-21 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Chris Robinson wrote: > > IIRC, it's been discussed before, and it simply wouldn't work. D3D has too > many ties to the Windows API that a non-Windows based implementation wouldn't > be appropriate for Wine (try getting an HDC from a D3D resource, or passing an >

D3D via Gallium

2010-09-21 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Hello, I found the following article/commit very interesting this morning. Has anybody else been looking at this and put thought into whether it will work with Wine? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=92617aeac109481258f0c3863d09c1b8903d438b http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ar

Re: Future of the WWN

2010-04-19 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Edward Savage wrote: > > Sounds like a good plan.  I've been working on a personal schedule of > one story per week excluding weeks where I've had a lot of work to do. >  So far over the last month since I started that's ended up with two > stories, one of which i

Future of the WWN

2010-04-19 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Hey folks. I plan on releasing one WWN per Wine release which at a minimum will include a very short news section and the bugzilla/appdb stats. I will also be "crown sourcing" news via the Wine Wiki: http://wiki.winehq.org/RecentNewsQueue. If you would like to get a news article into the WWN ple

Upcoming WWN

2009-12-13 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Greetings Folks, As is the usual excuse "real life" has gotten in the way of producing quality and timely World Wine News issues. Dan Kegel recently had the idea of putting together a wiki page where the community as a whole can contribute to the next issue. I concurred and Dan put together the

Re: Any Wineconf results?

2009-11-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Nikolay Sivov wrote: > Hi, guys. > I'd like to read something about decisions if any you've made at this > conf, some principle ideas or something. Wiki page > doesn't talk too much - but thanks for Michael's slides about > wine-oopses. All I'm able to find is Mar

Business professors preaching Wine

2009-10-13 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Thought you guys might enjoy this short story from my day: So I was in a class on product design (at the school of business @ the U of Penn) and my prof is going on about some software we'll need and how to use it. Out of the blue he says "And unfortunately it only works on Windows. But there is

Re: Patchwatcher not reporting failures?

2009-06-01 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Austin English wrote: > Testing patchwatcher with a patch that simply removes two todo_wine's > should've caused some failures. Indeed, looking at the log: > cred.c:315: Test failed: expected CredentialBlobSize of 0 but got 20 > cred.c:315: Test failed: expected NUL

Re: Its Alive! Patchwatcher is reborn.

2009-05-31 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > Congratulations!  It's nice to see it running again! > > Are you running it all on one node, or are you > using the distributed mode? I am using the distributed version of the code but for now its just on one machine. I was actually able to get

Re: Its Alive! Patchwatcher is reborn.

2009-05-31 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Kai Blin wrote: > On Sunday 31 May 2009 09:05:36 Zachary Goldberg wrote: >> All, >> >> As you may have noticed in the last WWN I have been working on getting >> patchwatcher back up on a rather nice server whose cpu time is >

Its Alive! Patchwatcher is reborn.

2009-05-31 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, As you may have noticed in the last WWN I have been working on getting patchwatcher back up on a rather nice server whose cpu time is graciously donated by STWing (stwing.org). I've got it running at the moment at http://winepatch.stwing.upenn.edu/results2/ There are still many, many kinks

Re: /. wants a fork

2009-05-25 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 15:47:30 schrieb Henri Verbeet: >> 2009/5/25 Remco : >> > Oh great, now there is poison on slashdot: >> > >> > http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/24/2044239 >> > >> > Let's not fork, shall we? >> >> Out of

Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part > of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, validate it with > a prototype, Would you, Alexandre, say we are at this point? I.e. that Massimo's des

Re: DIB Engine - first set of fixings agains wine test suite

2009-05-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Massimo Del Fedele wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta ha scritto: >> >> On Thursday 14 May 2009 02:02, Massimo Del Fedele wrote: >> >>> I started fixing failures against test suite. >>> Most of bitmap ones are fixed, remaining are due >>> to still stubbed funcs. >>> >>> Now

Re: AppDB entries are being delete without contacting maintainer by Rozanne

2009-03-06 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/3/6 Klaus Layer : > Am Freitag, 6. März 2009 21:42:18 schrieben Sie: >> >> Well, Rozanne _is_ an AppDB administrator, hence the permission to >> delete those entries. >> >> That said, yes, notice should be given. >> >> -- >> -Austin >> > > He/she never gave any notice. I just noticed that seve

Re: Malware on Wine review

2009-02-23 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/23 Ben Klein : > 2009/2/24 Zachary Goldberg : >> 2009/2/23 Dan Kegel : >>> Ben Klein wrote: >>>>> http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/ >>>>> >>>>> "Do not set the

Re: Malware on Wine review

2009-02-23 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/23 Dan Kegel : > Ben Klein wrote: >>> http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/ >>> >>> "Do not set the file association for Windows executables with Wine. >>> This would enable running Windows executables in Wine by simply double >>> clic

Re: Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

2009-02-13 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/13 Austin English : > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Reece Dunn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For those not monitoring slashdot [1], there is an article [2] that is >> comparing the Google V8 benchmark on Windows and Linux versions of >> Firefox 3. >> >> The result of this is that the Windows and

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/8 Chris Robinson : > Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're > stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead > recommending Wine. > Hm, interesting. Little room for sadness then, party all around!

EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they have given up their efforts to maintain a native client. While encouraging that Wine works so well, there is a very interesting debate which could be had as to wh

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Quick clarification on the 'When': WHEN: 9PM UTC 2/13/09 As far as getting dirty i'm officially covered in mud: http://repo.or.cz/w/NewAppDB.git Thus far i've been working in a branch called "survey". http://repo.or.cz/w/NewAppDB.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/survey If you're interested in get

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/7 Rosanne DiMesio : > > Could we also have some discussion about improving the interface for > admins/maintainers? I've found that the limitations of the current interface > make it very difficult to do basic admin tasks. > > -- > Rosanne DiMesio > > > Rosanne, I think thats a good idea

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-06 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, Meeting went well. We had a good number of contributors for more than 2 hours. Several outcomes from the meeting and a transcript are available on the wiki: http://wiki.winehq.org/AppDBUpgrades In Summary: We have a consensus that we want to replace the generic open questions we have now

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-06 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Alright, this is on for tonight at 6PM EST. If you've any interest or opinion of how the AppDB rating system should be upgraded I encourage you to attend and/or check the wiki afterwards to see what was decided. --Zach

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-04 Thread Zachary Goldberg
If you have interest in the future of the AppDB please make sure your ideas are in or referenced by the agenda on the wiki. I think things will go much smoother if we discuss line items from the agenda one by one rather than a random chaos. http://wiki.winehq.org/AppDBUpgrades

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-03 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/3 Sparr : > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Louis Lenders > wrote: >> Zachary Goldberg bluesata.com> writes: >> I think this will be a very difficult if not impossible task to accomplish. >> If we talk about test results, it's the app maintainer that is re

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-03 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/3 James Mckenzie : > This would be too early for people on the West Coast of the United States by > about three hours. > > No time will be satisfactory for all people who work on this project. > > What I feel is necessary at this point is to collect who lives in what time > zone so that we

Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-03 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, So it seems to be almost every other day now when somebody mentions how broken the appdb rating system is. This "broken-ness" has had several high level discussions on Wine-Devel. There have also been many, many proposed solutions to this problem. I do not wish to discuss these problems or

Re: First complete test run passing on a Windows platform

2009-01-29 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/1/29 Dan Kegel : > Wow, that's awesome! A day seven years in the making... > 2009: the test suite passes for somebody besides Alexandre on Wine: > http://www.winehq.org/wwn/355#Test%20Suite%20Passes! We'll have a new link to WWN 356 for Test Suite Passes v2 : Windows Style :) Congrats to t

Wined3d being used with VirtualBox D3D

2009-01-29 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, An interesting piece from Phoronix about new VirtualBox Direct3D support; which apparently uses WineD3D in the backend. I haven't noticed anything in particular but has Sun been filing bugs / sending patches? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzAyNA --Zach

Yearly commit statistics

2009-01-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, I received an email in response to the top article in WWN 355 about generating commit stats. See below. > I just saw that you used "git log" with some funny > options to filter out certain dates... You might be interested in the > --min-age and --max-age options, which have been there almo

LWN Timeline for 2008: Wine 1.0 made it!

2009-01-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, It seems Wine 1.0 was deemed a significant event for Linux and Free Software in 2008. http://lwn.net/Articles/Timeline2008/ Cool beans. -Zach

Re: Proof the new site design is superior!

2009-01-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/1/8 Dan Kegel : > The new site design is already paying dividends. Look: > http://www.zmogo.com/gear/the-new-year-linux-resolution-day-5/ > says: > "... I chose Wine mainly because its site is more appealing looking > than VMware's, which has all the sleek design features and > well-considere

Re: AppDB: Rating / Patching

2009-01-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/1/7 Sparr : > Re-compiling wine with patches is an extremely farfetched idea when no > one outside Cedega has ever tackled the far simpler tasks involved > with making a wine launcher. This statement is very untrue. http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications

Re: Better user feedback and better user experience (idea)

2008-12-16 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2008/12/16 Sander Devrieze : > Hi, > > One of the reasons why Linux distributions do not want to include Wine > by default is because compatibility issues may result a bad impression > of the quality of the OS. Users think Linux sucks because their > Windows application does not run (as good) under

Another machine passing tests

2008-12-15 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, It seems we have another machine which passes all tests on Wine http://test.winehq.org/data/bd25af9dba280e3d80f3080140f2f5ab2cd0dfb3/ Huzzah! --Zach

Re: Wine64 hello world app runs!

2008-12-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2008/12/5 Maarten Lankhorst : > Hi guys, > > I can finally report success on the first ever win64 program running on > wine. The program was a textbook classic, but to make it work gcc had to > be changed a lot. This was done by Kai Tietz, who has put a lot of > effort in the task of making gcc acc

Re: Canonical and wine

2008-12-10 Thread Zachary Goldberg
> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 19:09:16 Dan Kegel wrote: > http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/65431.html > quotes Gerry Carr, marketing manager at Canonical: > "We aren't considering a pitch about using Wine or Parallels like on a > Mac. There is no real look at Wine. It doesn't always work well

Re: RFC: Proposed new web site design

2008-11-24 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2008/11/24 Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looks great so far. Comments: > 1) nested scrollbars are evil. Better to put the news on its own tab, > lose the little sidebar the news was in, > and have a very small area in the main box for just the one most > important headline. > I disagree about

Re: wine build time: 6 (or 3) minutes with q9400

2008-11-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, once I bring the third slave online. > In the meantime, see > http://kegel.com/new-computer-2008b.html > which should give you a partial idea. I get the sense your basement is just covered in case-less computers. Aweso

Re: wine build time: 6 (or 3) minutes with q9400

2008-11-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Hans Leidekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> sec cpuwine notes > >> 676 e7200 June http://kegel.com/new-computer-2008.html ubuntu 8.04 > >> 615 e7300 Nov > >> 585 e7400 Nov (estimated

Re: winecfg - great job!

2008-10-27 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Eric Anopolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just read the following in the WWN: > > "The overall 'Wine Experience' was discussed next. As a whole everybody > agrees that it is ugly. Winecfg is arcane, there are tons of nonsense > fixmes, very little 'newb

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know *why* these people suffer? Is there something specific to > their > monitor or is it just a general struggle with captchas? > > Finally, is there someone who would be willing to help users through this? >

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008 03:11:38 Austin English wrote: > >> Can we get back to the original discussion and decide how we want to >> collect Wine usage statistics? > > The only viable proposal I saw was an opt-in in winecfg.

Fwd: WWN 353

2008-10-10 Thread Zachary Goldberg
I'm forwarding (with permission) to Wine-Devel an email I got about the most recent WWN and 'Other Platforms' support. --Zach -- Forwarded message -- From: Rodney Sparapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM Subject: WWN 353 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Zachary:

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> >> Ok, then you need to clarify what your plan with this 'option' is. Is >> this an option passed to configure that is disabled by default? If >>

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:06 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:59

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:06 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> You guys

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I don't see why we need to ignore other prefixes. My concern was >>> simply do we run this for eve

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You guys need to realize that in any given day we, as developers, > destroy and recreate wineprefixes several times. Having a popup for > every wineprefix creation will be extremely annoying. If this can't > be done behi

Re: Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
> I don't see why we need to ignore other prefixes. My concern was > simply do we run this for every prefix creation and store it within > the prefix, or are we going to store it elsewhere, under for example: > '~/.local/wine/survey-status'. > > Either way, I'd love to see this done, I'm moreso jus

Re: Usability: WineCfg Part 1 -- Desktop Integration tab

2008-10-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Reece Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Reading up on the wineconf WWN issue, I noticed that it mentions > usability and winecfg. Therefore, I decided to dig up my RFC relating > to some ideas I had about winecfg that I sent to the list. > Woot.

Please Review WWN 353

2008-10-05 Thread Zachary Goldberg
All, This WWN is all my writing and no quotes, and thus a lot more room for typographical and other errors. Thus I wanted to send everybody the WWN for review before publication. In particular please check the first section for name typos etc. http://home.bluesata.com/WineWWN/WineHQ/?issue=353

Re: Wineconf follow up: Cosmetic website changes

2008-10-05 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's right, I foolishly volunteered to put together > a draft for winehq.org's front page inspired by > openoffice.org's front page. > > The main constraint discussed at wineconf was that > the site navigation should not chan

Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

2008-10-05 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Hello All, Just wanted to continue the thread from Wineconf about tracking usage data in Wine. We had discussed adding an opt-in system at first run where all invokations of Wine would send a token to WineHQ to track the number of times users run given applications to help direct development. Th

Wineconf follow up: Cosmetic website changes

2008-10-05 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Hello all, I just wanted to start up a thread to continue the conversation from Wineconf about revamping the WineHQ homepage. The last notes I took on the subject had Dan Kegel considering doing an actual redesign. --Zach

Re: Detecting Wine

2008-09-29 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Jeff Zaroyko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Easier still would be checking for wine_get_version in ntdll... > > > #include > #include > int main(void) > { > static const char * (CDECL *pwine_get_version)(void); > HMODULE hntdll = GetModuleHandle("ntdll.dll"); >

Wineconf photos

2008-09-28 Thread Zachary Goldberg
http://picasaweb.google.com/zgold550/Wineconf2008 (a.k.a. an exhibit in terrible white balance). I haven't edited any of the shots, just uploaded straight from Picasa. If you want a full 10MP RAW or JPG of any of the shots with some actual editing / touchups let me know. -Zach

Wineconf-er caught at security.

2008-09-28 Thread Zachary Goldberg
I was stopped at security for carrying 'a wine bottle' through security. Upon a brief inspection it was revealed that my super-awesome crossover t-shirts had tripped the machine due to their lusciously exquisite compressed shape. Whoops. --Zach

Re: [WineHQ] Remove google adds box

2008-09-28 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Can I object the removal? > > There will be a WineConf next year right? > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Was for sponsoring WineConf. >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > http://www.wine-reviews.net/ > > >

WineConf

2008-09-27 Thread Zachary Goldberg
If you're reading this now at Wineconf, shame on you.

Re: improvement to patchwatcher

2008-08-27 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> to simply mark any individual patch as 'already >> applied to the tree' vs not applied isn't so difficult. >

Re: improvement to patchwatcher

2008-08-27 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it would be quite useful. For instance it would allow sending a >> nice reminder to the author to rethink/resend their patch if it hasn'

Re: improvement to patchwatcher

2008-08-26 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:10 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> question still stands. How is that useful at all, especially for a >> developer? > > It's of limited use, IMHO. If you care about keeping patches >

Re: improvement to patchwatcher

2008-08-26 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:02 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Would it be difficult though to once a day do a git fetch and attempt >> to re-apply all the known (goo

Re: improvement to patchwatcher

2008-08-26 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:39 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Vijay Kiran Kamuju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to add column to the patchwatcher, whether the patch >> has been rejected/accepted/pending into git. >> > > This is

Re: Patchwatcher: failed regression tests: d3dx8: replace loops with explicit computations to make them faster [PATCH] d3dx8: replace loops by explicit computations

2008-08-23 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patchwatcher notes that the conformance test fails here: > Also: did you benchmark this change to verify it actually made > things faster? Unrolling loops is no longer as sure-fire a win as > it used to be. I'm inclined to p

Re: Patchwatcher online

2008-08-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vijay Kiran Kamuju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ahh... I forgot how to handle dependent patches, if they are not in a >> patch series > > I don't know if there's a good way to handle those. > Maybe just encourage people not t

Re: Patchwatcher online

2008-08-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vijay Kiran Kamuju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ok I was expressing my concern as it took around 2-3hrs to see my >> patch in the patchwatcher. > > It's running on a 1GHz single core machine right now. > I'll probably put it o

Re: Patch formatting question: how picky should the robot be?

2008-08-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, git generates patches like this: > > diff --git a/dlls/ddraw/tests/dsurface.c b/dlls/ddraw/tests/dsurface.c > index da66e2e..4569997 100644 > --- a/dlls/ddraw/tests/dsurface.c > +++ b/dlls/ddraw/tests/dsurface.c > > and tha

Re: Make RegisterDeviceNotificationW behave like RegisterDeviceNotificationA

2008-08-07 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On 8/6/08, Martin Profittlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > This patch fixes bug 14781 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14781). > > Some Native Instruments apps like Kontakt 3 and Kore Player crash on startup, > shortly after calling RegisterDeviceNotificationW(). This stub curren

Re: [WineHQ] [4/4] news: Remove the 'Weekly Newsletters' box from the home page.

2008-08-04 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- > > So assuming that all the previous patches were miraculously correct, then, > as discussed on wine-devel, we don't need the 'Weekly Newsletters' box > anymore. > > site |6 -- > 1 files changed, 0 insertion

Re: Patch checking robot coming

2008-08-02 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ambroz wrote: >> To me, a script that builds just >> every patch is a serious security flaw; I suppose it wouldn't >> be very hard for someone to send a naughty patch >> that would take control of your machine. > > True. > >> I

Re: WWN announcements on WineHQ

2008-07-30 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Zachary Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As long as we are okay that for the for the duration of time in which >> the news item is on the front page it will be red

Re: WWN announcements on WineHQ

2008-07-30 Thread Zachary Goldberg
OTECTED] > > > As long as we are okay that for the for the duration of time in which the news item is on the front page it will be redundant with the side box I am alright with this as well (I think this is mitigated by the fact that in the RSS it won't be redundant and instead will

Re: WWN announcements on WineHQ

2008-07-30 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On http://www.winehq.org/ we have the following news items: > > July 13, 2008: Wine Weekly News Issue 349 > > WWN Issue 349 was released today. > > June 18, 2008: Wine Weekly News Issue 348 > > WWN Issue

Re: [WineHQ][WWN] WWN 349

2008-07-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bryan DeGrendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Ivan Gyurdiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Zachary Goldberg wro

Re: [WineHQ][WWN] WWN 349

2008-07-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Ivan Gyurdiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zachary Goldberg wrote: > > ... but did not spell check :) > Granted, the movie quote is pretty funny, even if isn't spelled right. > > Ivan > What is spelled wrong? -Zach

Re: New winetricks 20080704: added firefox3, kde verbs (and a whole lot of other stuff)

2008-07-06 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I in no way mean to second guess your work but I checked out the diff >> for the most recent commit for how winetr

Re: New winetricks 20080704: added firefox3, kde verbs (and a whole lot of other stuff)

2008-07-06 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Vitaliy Margolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vitaly Lipatov wrote: >> В сообщении от 4 июля 2008 Dan Kegel написал(a): >>> Another week, another winetricks. >> Please check attached patch with fixes agains 20080704 version of winetricks. >> >> Changes: >> - introdu

Tests and Valgrinding

2008-07-02 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Hello! I've been watching wine a bit recently and there's been a lot of activity (code wise) in new features (backpressure from the freeze I'm sure) and lots and lots of test fixes. I know we have test.winehq.org which is fantastic, but it doesn't give a very good feel for progress that all of th

Re: Some Questions From The Bugzilla Project

2008-06-24 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Max Kanat-Alexander > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hey there Wine Bugzilla folks. I've been funded by the Mozilla >> Foundation to do a survey of the major Bugzilla-using organizati

Re: Wine-1.0 release notes

2008-06-12 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Tom Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Vitaliy Margolen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scott Ritchie wrote: >>> In any case, we should note why we're making a release in the first >>> place, and make it very clear that we believe

Re: Revert "wined3d: Preload target in ActivateContext() for ORM_BACKBUFFER/ORM_PBUFFER."

2008-06-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 06:50:15 schrieb Vitaliy Margolen: >>> This reverts commit 2d0016c5bc872afb562727278cfd341cea182600. >>> Partially fixes bug 11584. >> I think we

Re: Coaxing appdb maintainers into testing their apps with rc1?

2008-05-12 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Dan, On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff wrote: > >> http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt > > > I think a little typesetting goes a long way in keeping peoples attention. > > [How about] http://jeffz.name/regressionhunt.html > > Yeah, my origina

Re: Lots of regressions in games in last few versions

2008-05-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Zachary Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I agree, and I'm of course not talking about reverting the entire >> tree. Vitaliy has mentioned a few specific patches

Re: Lots of regressions in games in last few versions

2008-05-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
Alexandre, On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Zachary Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think most of the participants in this thread thus far recognize the >> complexity of Wine and the difficul

Re: Lots of regressions in games in last few versions

2008-05-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Alexander Dorofeyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >> James McKenzie wrote: >>> Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Several latest releases introduced lots and lots of regressions to a point that no games run as-is. Considering that we are at th

Re: Time-based releases idea

2008-05-05 Thread Zachary Goldberg
I think that a missing factor in making this decision is the shape of an automatic test suite. Its been mentioned a dozen times and has the potential to tip the scales in favor of the time-based releases (making QA easier -> shorter freezes). In the event that we are able to maintain QA (by test

Re: Wine Status Page

2008-04-17 Thread Zachary Goldberg
> Regards > Joel Holdsworth > > > > > I've spoken with the guy who used to maintain these pages (Tom Wickline) who mentioned that he may be able to update them during the code freeze this coming May. -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Capt

Re: [WineHQ][WWN] WWN 345

2008-04-15 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Zachary Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > + > + title="News: new WineTricks, 1.0 status updates and more" > > + subject="Wine" > > + a

Re: Lug Radio Live 2008 wine talk. Slides online, comments welcome.

2008-04-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
late?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tdg.ch%2Fpages%2Fhome > %2Ftribune_de_geneve%2Frecherche%2Frecherche_3_2_1%2F(contenu)% > 2F211880&langpair=fr|en&hl=fr&ie=UTF8 > > Slide 13 : > > Maybe add "2008: Codeweavers releases Crossover Games" > > I'm looking forward to

Re: shell32: implement SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirA/W [2nd resend]

2008-04-13 Thread Zachary Goldberg
tiByteToWideChar, it shouldn't fail in this > case (or if you test it, then you need to handle the error properly, not > use an empty path instead). > > -- > Alexandre Julliard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Stefan, Any progress on this? -- Zachary Goldberg Com

Re: [Wine] Uninstallation of Programs

2008-04-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
1.0 is as good a time as > > ever to try and make some of these things work. > > I don't think patches will ever be refused outside the code freeze ;-) > --Juan > My current semester ends during the code freeze :/. Perhaps post 1.0 though. -- Zachary Goldberg Computer S

Re: [Wine] Uninstallation of Programs

2008-04-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
I agree that its certainly not necessary functionality wise, but to what extend are we going for polish and shine for 1.0 as a whole package, including bundled apps? I feel like 1.0 is as good a time as ever to try and make some of these things work. -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Eng

Re: [Wine] Uninstallation of Programs

2008-04-11 Thread Zachary Goldberg
s not a high priority to fix. Should we perhaps reconsider that for 1.0? Perhaps something worth fixing during the freeze? > If you want to remove all programs > and settings, you can do > $ rm -rf ~/.wine > > To start fresh. It will be recreated whenever you run any win

Re: .net 2 first light on nontrivial apps

2008-04-09 Thread Zachary Goldberg
begin to get used to "System.NotImplementedException"s :). Do crashing .net apps still print the full wine stack trace as well? -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania

Re: Appdb nice urls: best way to test indexing of production data

2008-03-19 Thread Zachary Goldberg
1:31 AM, John Klehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Zachary Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:07 AM, John Klehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I

Re: Appdb nice urls: best way to test indexing of production data

2008-03-19 Thread Zachary Goldberg
`wget -O appdb/wine-appdb-$file ftp://ftp.winehq.org/pub/wine/wine-appdb-$file `; -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania

Re: Wine Security Disclosure

2008-03-14 Thread Zachary Goldberg
won't affect anything in your environment is a virtual machine. But for apps that you know are alright, games etc. then running as a normal user is perfectly fine. > > What's the consensus here? And shouldn't this info be published somewhere, > in big bold letters? > >

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