Wine 0.9 TODO v0.5

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

Folks,

A new version (0.5) of the Wine 0.9 TODO is out:

http://www.dssd.ca/wine/Wine-0.9-TODO-0.5.html

The work-in-progress one is always available at:

http://www.dssd.ca/wine/Wine-0.9-TODO.html

Please check it out, and help me keep it up-to-date. :)

Again, for you convenience, the TODO is included below,
in text form:

A. WineHQ work

1. Website redesign [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Jeremy Newman
          * status: backend is getting finalized
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
   2. Move the doc scripts out of documentation into the tools CVS module [TODO]
          * worker: Jeremy Newman
          * status: should remind Jeremy to do it :)
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
   3. Reorganize the navigational menu [DONE]
          * worker: Francois Gouget & al.
          * status: merged into new site
          * updated: Nov 5, 2002
   4. Create some really sexy screenshots [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Brian Vincent
          * status: please send screenshots to the above mentioned maintainer
          * updated: Nov 12, 2002
          * criteria: listed here
   5. Rework the FAQ interface [IN PROGRESS]
          * workers: Dimitrie O. Paun, Keith Matthews, Thomas Wickline
          * status: released for public review here
          * updated: Nov 9, 2002
   6. Enlist some 'official' distribution maintainers [DONE]
          * RedHat: Vincent Béron
          * SUSE: Marcus Meissner
          * Mandrake: Kye Lewis
          * Debian: Ove Kaaven
          * FreeBSD: Gerald Pfeifer
          * status: completed
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
   7. Create nice page with apps that run virtually flawless [IN PROGRESS]
          * workers: Carlos Lozano, Dustin Navea
          * status: list submitted for discussion, and partly posted here as a HTML page.
          * updated: Nov 13, 2002
          * criteria: not MS dlls required, no tricks, etc.

B. Documentation work

1. Fix incomplete and/or out of date documentation. [IN PROGRESS]
          * workers: Dustin Navea, Tony Lambregts
          * status: 7.5% complete (first round of patches committed, help would be appreciated)
          * updated: Nov 12, 2002
   2. Fix documentation build process [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Vincent Beron
          * status: patch submitted
          * updated: Nov 10, 2002
   3. Move CVS docu from User Guide to Devel Guide [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Bill Medland
          * status: just started
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
   4. Merge documentation/wine.texinfo into the Development Guide [TODO]
   5. Merge documentation/HOWTO-winelib into the Development Guide [TODO]
   6. Do something about documentation/installation-und-konfiguration.german [TODO]
   7. Do something about documentation/shell32 [TODO]
   8. Do something about documentation/status [TODO]

C. Wine configuration

1. Merge configuration into the registry [TODO]
   2. Write control panel applets for editing it [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Jaco Greeff
          * status: 7.5% (screenshots here, and here)
          * updated: Nov 11, 2002
   3. Have decent defaults so we can start control panel without prior configuration [TODO]
   4. Have wizard like app to autoconfigure wine [TODO]
          * proposal: WineSetupTk by Jeremy White
   5. Make Wine's DLLs register themselves to avoid manual merging of the winedefault.reg [TODO]
   6. Write wine.inf script to setup a new Wine installation [TODO]
   7. Have a wineboot script for RunOnce stuff [IN PROGRESS]
          * workers: Andreas Mohr, Shachar Shemesh
          * status: 50%
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002

D. Stabilize utilities

1. Get rid of the init directive from .spec files [DONE]
          * worker: Alexandre Julliard
          * status: implemented by this
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
   2. Make sure the .spec file format is fairly stable [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Alexandre Julliard
          * status: Yes, I'll do that.
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
          * what: can we get rid of the rsrc directive?
   3. Ensure the various utilities' options are stable [IN PROGRESS]
          * status: Alexandre fixed winebuild options
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
          * what: audit the other utilites
   4. Get rid of the Perl testing framework [DONE]
          * worker: Dimitrie O. Paun
          * status: patch submitted, and committed ([1], and [2])
          * updated: Nov 11, 2002

E. Important fixes

1. Window management rewrite, so we can install apps in managed mode. [TODO]
          * worker: Alexandre Julliard
          * status: not started
   2. Finish DLL separation Phase 1 [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: ?
          * status: deferred
          * updated: Nov 11, 2002
          * criteria: DLLs should use only functions exported through .spec file.
   3. Detect printing system at runtime [TODO]
          * worker: Huw Davies
          * status: Yup, I'm going to do this in the near future.
          * updated: Nov 7, 2002
   4. Detect OpenGL system at runtime [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Lionel Ulmer
          * status: Patch submitted for review.
          * updated: Nov 9, 2002
   5. Start builtin WinHelp when invoked from apps [DONE]
          * worker: Eric Pouech
          * status: patches submitted (client, server) for review, and accepted.
          * updated: Nov 11, 2002
   6. Add macro support to the builin WinHelp [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: Eric Pouech
          * status: Patch submitted for review.
          * updated: Nov 14, 2002
   7. Add CHM support to builtin WinHelp [IN PROGRESS]
          * worker: J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)
          * status: Cabextract, and CHMtools donated to Wine
          * updated: Nov 11, 2002
   8. Good support for VisualBasic apps [TODO]
          * worker: ?
          * status: ?
          * updated: Nov 9, 2002
          * tests: submitted by Roderick Colenbrander