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Re: Sourceforge WIne RPMs and Yum
by Dwayne Bailey Feb. 3, 2004

Feb. 3, 2004

Hi, Are there any yum experts here? I thought it would be a good idea to get a yum repository established for the Wine RPMs held at sourceforge. I for one would love to have the latest build of wine installed as soon as RPMs are available on Sourceforge. yum-arch seems to be the command to create the repository headers but I'm not sure how you would manage this with the round robbin sourceforge downloads. I think some other sf project have managed this. Anyone out their who can help? Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: >On February 3, 2004 04:42 am, you wrote: > > >>I was wondering if it would be possible to create yum repositories >>of the Sourceforge RPMs certainly for use with Fedora. >> >> > >It sounds like a really good idea, but I know little about the topic, >as I'm not yet running Fedora. You may want to post a call for >volunteers on wine-devel(a)winehq.org, maybe someone has the know-how >and steps forward... > > > -- Kind regards Dwayne Bailey dwayne(a)translate.org.za +27-21-448 7827 / 9265 (work) +27-21-448 9574 (fax) +27-83-443 7114 (cell) "An English-only, or even an English-mainly, policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language" Dr Neville Alexander - 'Where English can Serve but not Empower.' Translate.org.za - Opensource software for all South Africans A project of the Zuza Software Foundation Zuza - given freely, get as a gift, obtained freely

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Re: Wine 0.9 TODO
by Dimitrie O. Paun Feb. 3, 2004

Feb. 3, 2004

On February 3, 2004 02:56 am, Lars Segerlund wrote: > I am curious about 'testing daemon to run as windows service' [I'm Cc:-ing wine-devel, other may be interested in this as well] This TODO item has nothing to do with running services under Wine. What this is instead is a real Win32 service for Windows. The purpose of this service is to help us automate the running of our conformance test suite under Windows. It's operation should be very simple: once installed, it has to poll (say every 1h) a location on winehq.org to determine when new tests are available. When they are, it has to download one executable (winetest.exe), and run it (winetest.exe -b). That's it. This way, people that want to help us test, can simply install this service, and go by their business. Needless to say, we need a volunteer for this... No Unix experience required, this is purely a Win32 little app. Nice way to get started :) -- Dimi.

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WineConf update
by Vizzini Feb. 2, 2004

Feb. 2, 2004

After a slippery drive home (12 stressful hours from Minneapolis -> Kansas City, rather than the six it took me to get there on Friday), I finally have time to report a bit on WineConf. First of all, I'd like to thank Codeweavers on behalf of those of us from ReactOS that attended the conference. It was really run well, with ample free food (always a requirement). I didn't even mind -5F as much as I thought! There were about 35 Wine and ReactOS hackers there, and two days worth of presentations. I started getting serious questions about ReactOS the instant people figured out who I was. There was about a 50/50 split between people wanting to know what it was and people wondering why we are bothering to do this. There were a lot of interesting (and passionate) conversations about the role of Linux on the desktop, the stupidity of trying to clone the windows kernel, intellectual property considerations, etc. I can say that in all cases, the discussions were very positive and open. I'm certain that I didn't convince everyone, but just the opportunity to make the case was worthwhile. The ReactOS presentation on Sunday morning went as well as can be expected, given the state of our code. I spoke from a prepared deck (http://plasmic.com/~vizzini) for about 15 or 20 minutes, and then we demonstrated various aspects of the system. Steven ran the demonstrations, which included showing off Explorer, Windows XP Notepad, and our installation system. Then, the four of us (Steven, Art, Mark, and me) took questions. Most of the questions this time around were very technical in nature, and there was at least one question (from Gavriel State, regarding our DIB engine), that pretty much stumped us (can one of the UI guys please comment?). We had two crashes due to the floppy driver (well, also due to my stupidity at not configuring VMWare with a blank floppy disk image before starting), and one non-detected mouse incident. There was also a bit of a repainting problem, but on the whole, the system represented itself well. There was a very interesting question brought up on Saturday morning by one of the Wine guys (Mike perhaps?) regarding running ReactOS inside Linux, like Win4Lin. I was skeptical at first, but having slept on it a day or two, I think this is a really cool idea. The proposal is that we adapt our own ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll to run correctly in user mode, just like user mode linux does, and use them to run the rest of a native Windows XP system. In other words, it replaces Win4Lin with free software, and it would be compatible with the current Windows OSes. Much investigating remains to be done, of course - I can't really even guess at the level of difficulty or time required at this point - but it is worth pursuing in my opinion. Jan Kratochvil also joined us to present about his Captive NTFS project. For those that don't remember what this is, Jan got the ntfs.sys driver from Windows XP running in Linux, in part by using chunks of ReactOS code. Jan and I had some offline discussions as well about bringing Captive's improvements back into our tree, and about other captive-like projects that could be implemented. I expect a lot of focus will be applied to this area of Quasi-Wine, Quasi-ReactOS hacking over the next year. All in all, it was a really great conference, and I'll definitely try to attend again next year. Presentations were good, conversations were interesting, people were friendly, and Minnesota at -5 was beautiful! ;-) -Vizzini

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Re: New registry key adding patch
by Zimler Attila Feb. 2, 2004

Feb. 2, 2004

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: >On February 2, 2004 03:05 am, you wrote: > > >>Yes, I nee help :) It's the old problem :) what task could I start :) If >>I saw correctly in the list, regedit is implemented meantime :) >> >> > >We still need to add support for delete/rename of keys. > > > > Ok, I all will do it :) (if I don't know something I will ask it) Attila

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Found this on ATI's devel pages, might help with directx ?
by Lars Segerlund Feb. 2, 2004

Feb. 2, 2004

I don't know if you have seen this before, but it's a program to run the grafix pipeline interactive, thought it might be usefull. http://mirror.ati.com/developer/sdk/rage128SDK/Multex/Multex3D.html / have a look, Lars Segerlund.

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TransparentBlt
by Kevin Koltzau Feb. 2, 2004

Feb. 2, 2004

Implementation of TransparentBlt This brings up an interesting thing however..it works perfectly under windows (tested on XP), but produces strange results under wine. MaskBlt seems to be broken, but I'm not quite sure what the cause is yet I figured I'd send this out incase the problem is obvious to anyone

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Re: x11drv
by Dimitrie O. Paun Feb. 2, 2004

Feb. 2, 2004

On January 30, 2004 09:00 am, RemiAssailly(a)aol.com wrote: > I don't understand you ! > Without that it does not work. > With that, it works and graphic working is faster. Maybe so, but it looks obviously incorrect. Not everything that seems to fix problems is a real fix. You maybe hiding a bigger issue. The fix as you sent it can't be right, but you maybe on to something. Someone knowledgable in the area should express a more informed opinion. -- Dimi.

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Announcing #winehackers
by Mike Hearn Feb. 1, 2004

Feb. 1, 2004

Hi guys, One of the action items decided on at wineconf was to set up an IRC channel for Wine developers. This channel now exists and is #winehackers. Key points to be aware of are: * It's on freenode * It is for developers only, user tech support (how do i run counterstrike?) etc should be/will be bounced to #winehq * There are a lot of ops. This is intentional. Often on #winehq there are problems caused by users but there are no ops around (only like 3 guys have op access to it). Me (TD), Mike McCormack (mike_m) and Francois Gouget (fgouget) have the ability to add people to the auto-op list through virtue of being the first guys into the channel. * The channel is modelled after #gnome-hackers on gimpnet, which has been a great success with buy-in from even their busiest, most core hackers (hint hint alexandre :) * All wine hackers are welcome, this most explicitly includes WineX dudes * No topic is offtopic. Have fun! I'll submit a patch to add mention of it to the WineHQ website, but #gnome-hackers grew to a huge number of people just through word of mouth so there's no real hurry. Tell your friends, rescue budding wine hackers from the helpdesk that is #winehq etc. It's a resource that is there to be used, so use it. thanks -mike

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win32 application error - Cannot open AVI - a FindFolder animation
by sun Feb. 1, 2004

Feb. 1, 2004

Hi, I searched archives, but not found solution for my problem. I try to run a EMS QuickDesk application on wine, everything going fine until i wan't to connect to database. In this moment on QD displays animation FindFolder. That animation is launch by SendMessage API call and it in a dll resource shell32.dll i think. How can i run this prog?. On testing purposes i make a simple delphi prog, you can download it from http://eclsoft.no-ip.com/project.exe.gz Help me, please. -- regards Greg

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Telux wine presentation slides (modifiable source)
by Shachar Shemesh Feb. 1, 2004

Feb. 1, 2004

Hi all, I have sent the Telux Wine presentation slides to Jeremy Newman so he can put them on the winehq site. Feel free to use them (and change them) for similar presentations, but please give me some sort of credit for them. Shachar

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