February 2008 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: website: add links to most popular active Wine forums

by Dan Kegel

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Tom Wickline <twickline(a)gmail.com> wrote: > And Google Groups has 738 subscribers :D > > There for a second I was feeling rather poorly about the wine-forum site. > > So, I suppose the forums I put up are about as destructive as Goggle Groups. Nah, the usenet group's been there for over a decade, it's not hurting anybody. (Though it sure would be nice if we had that bidirectional gateway working. It never seems to stay up.)

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: website: add links to most popular active Wine forums

by Tom Wickline

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3949/googlegroupsmozillafirejz8.png And Google Groups has 738 subscribers :D There for a second I was feeling rather poorly about the wine-forum site. So, I suppose the forums I put up are about as destructive as Goggle Groups. Actually 13 Members less destructive. -Tom On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote: > 2008/2/21 Tom Wickline <twickline(a)gmail.com>: > > [if] the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not > > > popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular? > > Well, let's see: > Ubuntuforums: Threads: 685,027, Posts: 4,364,352, Members: 509,031 > Linuxforums: Threads: 111,640, Posts: 550,654, Members: 149,826 > Linuxforen.de: Themen: 238.148, Beiträge: 1.602.009, Benutzer: 70.611 > comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: Threads: 22,816; no idea how many > posts or members. > wine-forum.org: Threads: 174, Posts: 529, Members: 751 > > I think you have to grow by about two orders of magnitude > to complete. And even then, you'd be > fragmenting the user space. I rather doubt the > average Ubuntu user, comfortable in his or her Ubuntu > forum, will venture afield when there's a wine area right > there in the ubuntu forum site. Likewise, users comfortable > with the wine-users mailing list are unlikely to switch. etc. > By adding a new forum, you're decreasing the quality of > support in the existing ones. > - Dan >

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: wined3d: ActivateContext: try to fix wrong parameter?

by Roderick Colenbrander

> Hi, > > as suggested I send this patch for a discussion. This is a workaround > for this bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11584 . > > I don't know if this patch is the right way to fix the problem. > > Could someone with more knowledge have a look at this? > > Cheers > Rico It is not a workaround but a patch which restores the original behavior of the LoadLocation function. During the merge of the two codepaths I missed this part. Roderick -- +++ GMX empfiehlt 1&1 Surf & Phone! +++ 20 Jahre 1&1 - Jetzt 20%* Rabatt auf alle DSL-Pakete! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: website: add links to most popular active Wine forums

by Dan Kegel

2008/2/21 Tom Wickline <twickline(a)gmail.com>: > [if] the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not > popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular? Well, let's see: Ubuntuforums: Threads: 685,027, Posts: 4,364,352, Members: 509,031 Linuxforums: Threads: 111,640, Posts: 550,654, Members: 149,826 Linuxforen.de: Themen: 238.148, Beiträge: 1.602.009, Benutzer: 70.611 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: Threads: 22,816; no idea how many posts or members. wine-forum.org: Threads: 174, Posts: 529, Members: 751 I think you have to grow by about two orders of magnitude to complete. And even then, you'd be fragmenting the user space. I rather doubt the average Ubuntu user, comfortable in his or her Ubuntu forum, will venture afield when there's a wine area right there in the ubuntu forum site. Likewise, users comfortable with the wine-users mailing list are unlikely to switch. etc. By adding a new forum, you're decreasing the quality of support in the existing ones. - Dan

Feb. 21, 2008

wined3d: ActivateContext: try to fix wrong parameter?

by Rico Schüller

Hi, as suggested I send this patch for a discussion. This is a workaround for this bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11584 . I don't know if this patch is the right way to fix the problem. Could someone with more knowledge have a look at this? Cheers Rico

Feb. 21, 2008

wineprefixcreate failing?

by Maarten Lankhorst

Hi all, Is it just me or is wineprefixcreate crashing horribly for others as well? Cheers, Maarten.

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: website: add links to most popular active Wine forums

by Tom Wickline

If you know of another active Wine forum - especially a non-english one - please let us know so we can add it to the list. (Email to dank(a)kegel.com would do.) Русский http://www.wine-forum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=44 Tom P.S Sorry, the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular? The forum has 750+ registered users in just over three months... 1, 2, 5 thousand?? On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote: > Perhaps this will help slake the thirst of those who periodically ask > if Wine needs a forum. > > > >

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: [1/2] ddraw: release interfaces when exiting with error

by Stefan Dösinger

Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 22:03:51 schrieben Sie: > --- > dlls/ddraw/texture.c | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Just a general comment(not specific to comments): For such cleanup work it works quite nice to use goto(!), as shown below. Your patch is OK as it is, but I think its a good idea to use this scheme in all places because it helps to prevent new problems from coming in when the code is changed. void *a = NULL, *b = NULL, *c = NULL; a = malloc(10); if(!a) goto error; b = malloc(10); if(!b) goto error; c = malloc(10); if(!c) goto error; if(dosomethingelse() == FAIL) goto error; return SUCCESS; error: f(c) free(c); f(b) free(b); f(a) free(a); return FAIL;

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: dplayx: Fix incorrect check in DirectPlayLobbyAImpl_EnumLocalApplications and IDirectPlayLobbyAImpl_EnumAddressTypes.

by Marcus Meissner

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:44:34PM +0000, Robert Shearman wrote: > > Dereferencing a function pointer and checking it against NULL doesn't make > any sense, so remove the checks. > - if( !lpEnumAddressTypeCallback || !*lpEnumAddressTypeCallback ) > + if( !lpEnumAddressTypeCallback ) It looks as if they were meant as &&, but that does not make much sense either. Ciao, Marcus

Feb. 21, 2008

Re: Do we need a forum?

by Tom Wickline

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:19 PM, L. Rahyen <research(a)science.su> wrote: > > > > Tom is committed to doing this with > > wine-forum. If there is something you don't like, such as the > > registration, advertisements, etc I am sure he is willing to adjust > > the user experience. > > OK, then if he is reading this list hopefully he will consider my words as > feature request. If he really will fix these issues that would be great. > Thanks. > > > Sorry for the late reply, ive caught the flu bug and ive been sick for the past week. I have yet to receive the first email of complaint about the advertisements on the forum. I know the Kontera adverts are considered by some as nag, pop-up advertising but ive yet to receive a message or email asking me to remove them. As for registration, every forum ive ever visited asked for registration, sorry but I don't understand what your asking for? Tom

Feb. 21, 2008