What about rather a coding / debugging frenzy ?
I considered them both but they are very hard to do for me for a known reason, Documentation.
I read them all + a lot of the mailing lists but still do not know where to start with all of this even in the debugging, getting the trace of a certain component is not that easy because there is no place listing them I need to guess if it's +reg or +registry for example, there are places where it's match harder (ex display stuff)....
About coding it's even harder since I do not know a lot about linux and in programming for linux for a first, the list of tasks is updated very slowly and usually not very clear to outsiders, the Janitorial list that is suppose to be the easiest is not very clear about what to do and is full of junk already done, not updated very frequently and also has stuff that the gurus here are working months on them (like dll separation) so how does a Janitorial suppose to do that?
Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say anything bad about you or the project or the rest of the wonderful people working on it, but as I see it the reason others programmers do not join it or at least I don't is becouse you do not make this task easy at all, if anyone would want to turn this around and try to pass some of this knowledge I am willing to learn and document (I am not a writer and my primary language is not English...) just to get the view point of a new programmer (ok I HAVE been watching this project for about 4 years but did not get active as a programmer).
Ya, this is not a constant signature, sincerely yours, Hatky.
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hatky wrote:
About coding it's even harder since I do not know a lot about linux and in programming for linux for a first, the list of tasks is updated very slowly and usually not very clear to outsiders, the Janitorial list that is suppose to be the easiest is not very clear about what to do and is full of junk already done,
Junk, humm one mans junk is anothers treasure!
Dimi, can you rename the Janitorial list to the (Sanford & Son) list? ;)
Tom
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Tom wrote:
Junk, humm one mans junk is anothers treasure!
Indeed. Now, I agree the thing can be update a bit more often, but it's not that out-of-date. The reason it wasn't updated as of late is that not much happened in the area. I've made a real effort of keeping the thing up to date as much as possible. If anyone sees anything that needs changing/correcting/updating/adding please let me know -- your comments are appreciated!
Dimi, can you rename the Janitorial list to the (Sanford & Son) list? ;)
Man, that's a obscure reference: http://www.timvp.com/sanford.html
:)
hatky hatkyinc@yahoo.com writes:
getting the trace of a certain component is not that easy because there is no place listing them
If you can find that component in the source tree (often easier than in the man page, which simply lists all the channels), then at the top of the .c file you will find a WINE_(DEFAULT|DECLARE)_DEBUG_CHANNEL(...) which tells.
coding it's even harder since I do not know a lot about linux and in programming for linux
Then you can help with fixing the conformance tests. :)
But is Wine working perfectly for you? Does not it have a bug the bugs you seriously? Try to fix that, ask and you will learn.
Best wishes, Feri.
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