2009/2/22 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
come on folks, pick up the ball. Â acknowledge that you're aware that there is an authoritative source of information on this horrendously-complex topic, in the form of nothing less than a fully functioning reference implementation.
I don't think anyone questions this. But (speaking as an observer, not someone with any particular power to garner interest for this), I suspect that your best bet for getting traction on this in Wine is:
* some apps that use this and work in Windows, but won't work on Wine without the admittedly bletcherous interface being implemented - that is, a good reason to implement this particular interface
(remembering that there are large chunks of win32 that Wine doesn't bother implementing because it turns out they're all but unused by actual app developers)
* then a conformance test or several that works in Windows but not in Wine.
That is, the first thing is a real-life use case or several.
- d.