Re: Huge frustration

2011-05-07 Thread André Hentschel
Am 07.05.2011 12:52, schrieb Roland Kaeser: > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687open (not even confirmed) > since more than 3 years > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14123open since 2008-06-25 > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3599 open (new) since

Re: Huge frustration

2011-05-07 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/7/11 3:52 AM, Roland Kaeser wrote: Hello Please take the following not personal but the huge pent-up frustration constrains me to say a few words. I've just tested one of my "longest waiting" apps to get working on linux: CorelDraw X3/X4. And I had to see that it fai

Re: Huge frustration

2011-05-07 Thread Lats
> > It would be understandeable to me if its written in the bug that the > fix of this bug will consume a lot of resources and its > impossible to fix this, but just to ignore it is not "the proper way > to behave". Most wine developers are just people sorting out problems that either affect them

Re: Huge frustration

2011-05-07 Thread Henri Verbeet
On 7 May 2011 12:52, Roland Kaeser wrote: > I know also thats a lot more fun developing directx routines instead of > fixing old bugs but No, it isn't. Sorry. But you know, git is awesome. You can spend days doing all kinds of interesting things, like figuring out which people contribute to which

Huge frustration

2011-05-07 Thread Roland Kaeser
Hello Please take the following not personal but the huge pent-up frustration constrains me to say a few words. I've just tested one of my "longest waiting" apps to get working on linux: CorelDraw X3/X4. And I had to see that it fails already with the same errors. I tooke a

MS installer frustration: "compressed file wasn't extracted"

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Now that plain old Visual C++ 2005 installs pretty well, I've been trying to get Visual C++ 2005 sp1 and Visual C++ 2008 to install. The latter requires .net 3.5. And all of them appear to be blocked by "err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles compressed file wasn't extracted", http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug

Re: (Was: Frustration) Implementing write support for regedit

2003-12-24 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On December 24, 2003 06:32 pm, Zimler Attila wrote: > I think I could help with implementing write support in regedit, as I > think nothing special about windows' graphics programming is need to > know. (Sound's link a task whith I can help as a newbie.) Yes, you are correct. > Could you assign a

Re: Frustration

2003-12-24 Thread Dan Kegel
Zimler Attila wrote: I'm triing to find an error to work on. I was happy that so many people gave me hints on what should be fix. I tried to understand things but, it seems that this is to big thing for me at this moment. Could somebody assign me a little task in a bigger which (s)he is working

Re: (Was: Frustration) Implementing write support for regedit

2003-12-24 Thread Steven Edwards
--- Zimler Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I could help with implementing write support in regedit, as I > > think nothing special about windows' graphics programming is need to > know. (Sound's link a task whith I can help as a newbie.) > Could you assign a subtask of it, and explain

Re: Frustration

2003-12-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Zimler Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to find an error to work on. [...] Could > somebody assign me a little task Szervusz! Have you had a look at http://winehq.org/site/fun_projects or .../janitorial? Introducing the Wineconsole toolbar or fixing some conformance t

(Was: Frustration) Implementing write support for regedit

2003-12-24 Thread Zimler Attila
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: In particular, there are two tasks that are quite good for someone new to the project: C.2. Write control panel applets for editing it C.8. Implement write support for regedit These are self containted, easy to understand and implement, and one of the big show stoppers

Re: Frustration

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 21:05, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > In particular, there are two tasks that are quite good > for someone new to the project: >C.2. Write control panel applets for editing it Seconded - working on winecfg is a good start. You can get used to the patch submission process, lear

Re: Frustration

2003-12-24 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On December 24, 2003 04:00 pm, Zimler Attila wrote: > Could somebody assign me a little task in a bigger > which (s)he is working on? This is normal Attila, don't get frustrated. Wine is a very big project, and it's not easy to start working. However, there are _plenty_ of things to do, and we do

Frustration

2003-12-24 Thread Zimler Attila
Hi, I'm triing to find an error to work on. I was happy that so many people gave me hints on what should be fix. I tried to understand things but, it seems that this is to big thing for me at this moment. Could somebody assign me a little task in a bigger which (s)he is working on? And explain