Thanks for the tip, Alan! ...John Alway On Monday, December 16, 2019, 06:40:17 PM CST, Alan W. Irwin alan.w.irwin1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2019-12-16 23:03-0000 Thales wrote:
Hello, What are some of the most important bugs that need fixing? I would like to take a crack at one or more. I've been looking at Bugzilla and there's quite a bit there to sift through.
Thanks for any feedback! ...John Alway
Hi John:
My advice is work on a Wine bug that is blocking something of interest to you since that interest will provide important focus and motivation.
For example, if you are interested in free software distributions for Windows like Cygwin or MSYS2, you might want to work on one or more bugs that are blocking those from working on Wine **after** reading a summary of the current situation at https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/682
(particularly the remarks starting at
"<corinna> the old method up to XP/2K3 is not available anymore"
.)
Note, I prefer to stick to my own free software development rather than work on Wine, but I do follow the Cygwin and MSYS2 situation because as a Linux user I would like to test my free software using the free software libraries in those distributions for the Windows platform without paying a Microsoft tax. And there are others with similar interests as well such as "fracting" (Qian Hong) who got MSYS2 to work reasonably well under Wine-staging before the post-XP change to MSYS2 that he refers to in that discussion. However, there is obviously a huge range of software available on Windows besides the software (e.g., the installers) supporting those two software distributions so if your interest is in something else (e.g., some game) you should follow your interest rather than mine!
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