December 2004 - more patches than you can shake a stick at
Happy new year everybody! Being the patch fetishist that I am, I couldn't help noticing that in December 2004 we cleared 8mb of patches: that's by far the largest since the current archives began in October 2000. The extra traffic came from a lot of places: - Huge improvements to the Application Database. - The number was also pushed higher by an MSI merge from CodeWeavers. - Some big janitorial patches went in from Michael Stefaniuc - Finally Rob and I were cranking out DCOM patches, and there are of course lots more in the pipeline. Now time for some crystal ball gazing. Here are some interesting patches we might be seeing in 2005: - Completion of the WM rewrite work. Alexandre seems to be making great progress on this, which will let us fix many of the odd visual corruption problems we've been plagued with for so long. It'll also let us remerge Alexs winedesktop patch, giving us a real desktop window that is used for all apps, at last. It should have many other benefits too: fixing the flickering in the Half Life menus and allowing us to support the NETWM fullscreen protocol. This should let us resolve many instances of the "my game starts but I can't type" problem. - Lots more DCOM code. Huw Davies is hacking on getting widl to produce a stdole32.tlb file, once that's in we can start really nailing InstallShield to the wall. We will hopefully get this and the thread-affinity patches in the next few months, which should mean for the first time we can run InstallShield 6 installers perfectly, out of the box. Support for newer InstallShields will come as time permits of course. - More MSI improvements! CodeWeavers are continuing to work on this so it should develop nicely even though the iTunes installer work has been completed. Office 2003 will also motivate this. It's being used by at least one commercial app porting project as well. - Support for running Winelib apps directly, so we can get rid of the .exe.so extensions/shell wrapper scripts, and produce "raw" ELF binaries. They'll still need the wine loader app to be present of course, but it should all be invisible and behind the scenes. Vincent Beron and I have been working on this in the last week or so, and we just need to finish it off and convince Alexandre the extra assembly is worth it! :) Who knows what the new year will bring? More apps working out of the box, that's for sure! Have fun! thanks -mike
Happy new year everybody ! In your list, you forgot your big work on systray. Do you see in your crystal ball if/when it will be merged ? thanks Max On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:57 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
Happy new year everybody!
Being the patch fetishist that I am, I couldn't help noticing that in December 2004 we cleared 8mb of patches: that's by far the largest since the current archives began in October 2000.
The extra traffic came from a lot of places:
- Huge improvements to the Application Database.
- The number was also pushed higher by an MSI merge from CodeWeavers.
- Some big janitorial patches went in from Michael Stefaniuc
- Finally Rob and I were cranking out DCOM patches, and there are of course lots more in the pipeline.
Now time for some crystal ball gazing. Here are some interesting patches we might be seeing in 2005:
- Completion of the WM rewrite work. Alexandre seems to be making great progress on this, which will let us fix many of the odd visual corruption problems we've been plagued with for so long. It'll also let us remerge Alexs winedesktop patch, giving us a real desktop window that is used for all apps, at last.
It should have many other benefits too: fixing the flickering in the Half Life menus and allowing us to support the NETWM fullscreen protocol. This should let us resolve many instances of the "my game starts but I can't type" problem.
- Lots more DCOM code. Huw Davies is hacking on getting widl to produce a stdole32.tlb file, once that's in we can start really nailing InstallShield to the wall. We will hopefully get this and the thread-affinity patches in the next few months, which should mean for the first time we can run InstallShield 6 installers perfectly, out of the box.
Support for newer InstallShields will come as time permits of course.
- More MSI improvements! CodeWeavers are continuing to work on this so it should develop nicely even though the iTunes installer work has been completed. Office 2003 will also motivate this. It's being used by at least one commercial app porting project as well.
- Support for running Winelib apps directly, so we can get rid of the .exe.so extensions/shell wrapper scripts, and produce "raw" ELF binaries. They'll still need the wine loader app to be present of course, but it should all be invisible and behind the scenes. Vincent Beron and I have been working on this in the last week or so, and we just need to finish it off and convince Alexandre the extra assembly is worth it! :)
Who knows what the new year will bring? More apps working out of the box, that's for sure! Have fun!
thanks -mike
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 17:07 +0100, Maxime Bellengé wrote:
Happy new year everybody !
In your list, you forgot your big work on systray. Do you see in your crystal ball if/when it will be merged ?
We'll see ;) Every so often I do a sprint on that patch, and each time it gets a bit closer to what Alexandre wants. The main problem is that I don't actually know what his vision for this code is, he never spells it out. So each time I improve it a few times but it's still not good enough, and I get bored/frustrated and move onto something else. I'll probably return to it in a few months. If somebody else wants to run with it of course they are welcome to do so. thanks -mike
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:57:27 +0000, you wrote:
Being the patch fetishist that I am, I couldn't help noticing that in December 2004 we cleared 8mb of patches: that's by far the largest since the current archives began in October 2000.
For those that like such statistics: http://home.wanadoo.nl/wijn/wine/cvssize.png Rein.
Rein Klazes wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:57:27 +0000, you wrote:
Being the patch fetishist that I am, I couldn't help noticing that in December 2004 we cleared 8mb of patches: that's by far the largest since the current archives began in October 2000.
For those that like such statistics:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/wijn/wine/cvssize.png
Rein.
Am I the only one who thinks that trend line isn't up to date? :p
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:35:17 +0100, you wrote:
Rein Klazes wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:57:27 +0000, you wrote:
Being the patch fetishist that I am, I couldn't help noticing that in December 2004 we cleared 8mb of patches: that's by far the largest since the current archives began in October 2000.
For those that like such statistics:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/wijn/wine/cvssize.png
Rein.
Am I the only one who thinks that trend line isn't up to date? :p
It is the trend of the first three years of wine cvs development. The graphs where created after a discussion (Dec. 2004) whether wine's progress is accelerating or even accelerating exponentially. Rein.
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