December 2004 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Should we get rid of the wine-license list?
by Scott Ritchie 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Looking at the archives it appears that wine-license has had very little traffic, to the point where a lot of it is probably not being read when it comes up, since people like me are not subscribed to that list. It seems like a lot of the stuff being sent there should instead go to wine-devel. Thoughts? Scott Ritchie

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Hyperthreading and SMP
by Kenneth Porter 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Does WINE have any problem with either Hyperthreading or SMP? I've found that locking the Tribes Vengeance dedicated server to a single logical CPU seems to give me better performance as the server fills with players. CPU usage seems significantly lower (45% versus 65%). Is this likely to be a WINE issue or a TV issue? (TV is based on the Unreal Tournament engine, with the Havok physics engine integrated to handle vehicle. Alas, unlike UT2004, there's no native Linux server for TV.) More here: <http://lists.matureasskickers.net/pipermail/tvservers/2004-December/000186.…> I want to try disabling HT or setting affinity on my co-admin's Win2003 server to see if he sees the same boost.

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Approving of the WINEprobe initiative
by David Gümbel 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hello everybody, - as my colleague Stefan Munz has already pointed out recently[1] on this list, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stutgart GmbH (WRS) and us (ITOMIG) are launching an initiative called WINEprobe[2]. Its goal is to make local software vendors aware of the potential bussiness opportunity in a WINE-based port or a WINE/Linux version of their software. WRS is quite committed as far as Open Source is concerned[3], and is pushing OSS in the region since quite a time. It has co-organized, among others, the KDE World Summit 2004 in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart[4]. The Perlworkshop 6.0 , GUADEC6 (GNOME Conference) [5], ApacheCon Europe and more than 40 other Open Source Events in the Stuttgart Region are organized or supported by the WRS as well. (You can find a description of WRS at the bottom of this mail.) In order to make the WINEprobe initiative beneficial for the WINE project as much as possible, three things are in the making: 1) At the option of the respective software vendor whose product we'll be analyzing for WINE compatibility, Application Database Entries will be maintained by us once a software product has been analyzed for its compatibility with WINE. 2) Reports of successful porting or migration projects will be given back to the community as success stories. My colleage is already working on merging some success stories supplied by third parties (see [6]). 3) WRS has offered to help out in hosting the WINE developers conference Wineconf in 2005 in the Stuttgart area[7]. Mr. Schmid from WRS has asked me (please see the mail below) to provide some information about this initiative to the WINE community. He thinks (and I agree ;) that it would help us a great deal in making the campaign a success if the WINE community somehow "officially" (as official as a community can be :) approved of this initiative. So my question, on behalf of Mr. Schmid, is simply if there are objections against us saying that this initiative is approved of by the WINE community? As an important sidenote, I permit myself to emphasize that all of our above mentioned efforts (1-3) to support the WINE project and its community are fully independent of the answer of this question. Most particularily, the hosting offer stands, and the commitment there won't be lowered if the WINEprobe is not approved of by the community. However, I feel that a successful WINEprobe will be a benefit for the WINE project as well. If there are any questions open, please feel free to ask. Cheers, David ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: AW: Update on WRS offer & Stuttgart University Date: Montag 20 Dezember 2004 14:46 From: "Hans-Ulrich Schmid" <hans-ulrich.schmid(a)region-stuttgart.de> To: David Gümbel <david.guembel(a)itomig.de> Dear Mr. Gümbel, as you know, ITOMIG and Stuttgart Region is planning to start a new initiative for small and medium software companies called "WINEprobe". "WINEprobe" will help these companies to learn more about the WINE-compatibility of their software products. It would be very helpful, if you can ask the WINE-community to support this new initiative officially. The hosting offer of the Stuttgart Region will not be affected by any way of the decision of the community in the point of supporting the "WINEprobe" or not. Can you please forward this mail to the community and tell them some more about the background of "WINEprobe" Best regards Hans-Ulrich Schmid Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation FIR_st - Forum IT-Region Stuttgart Friedrichstr. 10 70174 Stuttgart www.first.region-stuttgart.de www.opensource.region-stuttgart.de www.competenzatlas.de www.region-stuttgart.de Tel ++49.711.22835 - 27 Tel mobil ++49.172.7310463 Fax ++49.711.22835 - 55 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- WRS description: The Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation (WRS) is - founded to provide services to industry and communities in the field of economic development - a subsidiary of the administrative body of the larger Stuttgart Region - provides marketing for the Stuttgart Region - assists in cluster management of specific industries - advises and assists companies during the search for available sites and buildings In the context of our initiative "Open Source Region Stuttgart" http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de the WRS supports conferences and meetings of Open Source projects of various aspects when held in the Stuttgart Region. For example the WRS is co-organizer of the KDE Community World Summit 2004 in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart http://conference2004.kde.org/ . The Perlworkshop 6.0 , GUADEC6 (GNOME Conference) http://2005.guadec.org/papers.html , ApacheCon Europe and more than 40 other Open Source Events in the Stuttgart Region are organized or supported by the WRS as well. ------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel%40winehq.org/msg11549.html [2] WINEprobe means be something like WINEtasting in english an maybe "degustation de WINE" in french. [3] See http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de/ (.de only, sorry) [4] http://conference2004.kde.org/ [5] http://2005.guadec.org/papers.html [6] http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel%40winehq.org/msg11630.html [7] http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/11/0647.html

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Re: Remove heap.h
by Filip Navara 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Jon Griffiths wrote: >+ docA.lpszDocName = WtoA( doc->lpszDocName ); >+ docA.lpszOutput = WtoA( doc->lpszOutput ); >+ docA.lpszDatatype = WtoA( doc->lpszDatatype; > Isn't there a missing parenthesis?

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Re: ITSS: DllCanUnloadNow implementation
by Robert Shearman 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Jacek Caban wrote: > Changelog: > Implemented DllCanUnloadNow > > BOOL WINAPI ITSS_DllCanUnloadNow(void) > { >- FIXME("\n"); >- >- return FALSE; >+ TRACE("dll_count = %lu\n", dll_count); >+ return !dll_count; > > This function should return an HRESULT, not a BOOL. This error would have been caught if it weren't for the silly ITSS_ prefix. Consequently, the return value should be either S_OK or S_FALSE depending on whether there are no or some remaining references respectively. Rob

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Looking for Software which uses the MS Crypto API
by Michael Jung 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Hello, In order to test rsaenh.dll, I'm looking for software, which applies the Microsoft Crypto-API. Any suggestions? It would be ideal, if the source is available. Ciao, Michael

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Re: Remove heap.h
by Dimitrie O. Paun 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 07:57:31AM -0800, Jon Griffiths wrote: > Hi, > > After applying, include/heap.h can be removed from cvs. To be honest, I'm not too happy with this patch, HEAP_strdupWtoA was a good marker for code that needed fixing, this patch just makes those places harder to find. -- Dimi.

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Re: Get rid of DPRINTF in x11drv/opengl.c
by Dimitrie O. Paun 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:04:23PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I had some spare time, and I wanted to do some mostly non-designing code, so I > took the time to look at wine's janitorial projects, and I took a look at the > DPRINTF -> TRACE conversion. > > The attached patch removes DPRINTFs from x11drv/opengl.c (which is the only > file in x11drv which uses them), and replacing the 6 different following > calls with a single call for bits and buffer counters. This is a good project to work on, but the reason it's not done yet it's because it is not a simple replacement of DPRINTF with TRACE. Doing stuff like: + TRACE(" - size / version : %d / %d\n", ppfd->nSize, ppfd->nVersion); + TRACE(" - dwFlags : "); Will not work correctly in a multitreaded environment, where the lines may get intertwinded on output with statements from other threads. The way to do it is to prepare the output in a memory buffer, and output it at once. This can be done with the wine_dbg_sprintf() function. In cases where you need logic to construct the output (like testing for flags, etc), you can do it by first printing to a local buffer, and then printing the content of the buffer to a debug buffer via wine_dbg_sprintf(). A simple example of this technique can be found in the dlls/kernel/locale.c file, in the debugstr_lang() function. -- Dimi. -- Dimi.

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Re: Wine regression caused by 12/02 18:05:37 UTC commit: breaks Total Annihilation
by Jonathan Gevaryahu 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Eric Pouech <pouech-eric(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote: >To: Anish Mistry <mistry.7(a)osu.edu> >Cc: wine-devel(a)winehq.org >Subject: Re: Wine regression caused by 12/02 18:05:37 UTC commit: breaks Total > Annihilation > >and if you remove the entire line (if (!is_version_nt()) access = >TIMER_ALL_ACCESS;)? >A+ > > >--__--__-- > That doesn't fix the problem here. Still the same trace response... I haven't run it enough times to see if it will still occasionally work with that line altered or removed... I know it does work (without any changes from the version in CVS) about 5% of the time. Jonathan Gevaryahu lord_nightmare(a)users.sf.net

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Re: Get rid of DPRINTF in wininet
by Dimitrie O. Paun 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:33:52PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I hope only my usual karma is not here this time or I'll make everybody lost > time ^^ I'm afraid it is <g>. This is a case where the wine_dbg_sprintf() business is in order. -- Dimi.

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