Direct3D 8/9 status?

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Hi,

Recently various people in the wine channels wanted to work on wine's 
direct3d8/9 code. Some just wanted to get their game working, others wanted 
to do performance tweaks and today some guy wanted to port d3d8 over to 
wined3d (he didn't know that oliver is/was working on it). We don't really 
know what to tell these people as we don't know the status of the direct3d8/9 
work and we want to avoid code duplication. We know that Oliver is/was (?) 
working on moving direct3d8 over to wined3d and that he is working on 
optimizations. What's the status on all this and what areas of wined3d are 
safe to touch?

Regards,
Roderick