ToDo's - wine-devel

25 Sep 2002


      Thanks to everyone who has gave feedback on this.
Here is a draft of eveything up to today.
As always in need of feedback ;)
Tom
Wine ToDo's as of  9/25/02
Contact : twickline2@triad.rr.com
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Window management:
* Window management needs proper inter-process handling of
      activation, focus, repaint.
National Language Support:
* ASCII function work
Winsock:
* Winsock1 calls,in particular select(),use direct system calls 
instead of using related wine APIs
    * More unit tests need to be written
    * Make sure OOB data is handled properly. Check client-size blocking.
    * WS2: "provider" interface
    * WS2: Support other kind of services, like IrDA.
    * Fix stubs left in ws2_32.spec.
DirectSound:
* Make the latency configurable (tunable).
    * More intelligent prebuffering.
    * Complete support for hardware secondary buffers through the HAL
     (for a future ALSA multimedia wave audio driver).
    * 3D sound buffers.
    * Sound capture (recording).
Sound drivers:
* Alsa driver (on final 0.9 interface)
Video:
* Implement native codecs (RLE...)
    * DIB engine to do 32-bit graphics manipulation
DDE:
* Enhance memory management issues (interprocess sending)
Wineconsole:
* Add a (n)curse backend so that we can run CUI programs without 
using USER32 (and X11 behind)
Native programs:
* Winhelp: fix invocation thru WinHelp
    * Winedbg: make winedbg use dbghelp DLL
File management:
* Implement NT file namespace
    * UNC support
    * Allow flexibility in FS "mounting" (for example, SMB shares)
TrueType fonts:
* Libfontconfig support
Tools:
* Wine installation process should install and configure wine
    * Winemaker fixes
    * Run C regression tests on Windows with MSVC
    * Compile Wine with -DSTRICT
    * Work on WRC as it does not find system headers
Instructions:
* Write a proper Users Guide Introduction
    * Documentation updates
Aspect or Component:
* More DLL Separation
    * BiDi support
    * Review of Wine Server Protocol
    * Finalize Server Protocol
    * PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
    * Visual C++'s native COM support
    * Add DWARF2 support
    * Speed up PDB support
    * Create replacement of browser component (Internet Explorer/I
Porting issues for Mingw/Cygwin/MS_VC
* Better seperation of win16/32 code.
    * Remove/rewite win16/9x api dependancy on newer code
    * Remove/rewrite wineisms from code
    * Documentation fixes
low priority items:
* VxD support with dynamic loading
Add links to:
Tasklets: http://bugs.winehq.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=tasklet
tasklist: http://bugs.winehq.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=tasklist
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