re: What would most aid WINE development?

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel Kegel
Susheel Daswani wrote: > For my 'Antitrust & IP' course this semester I am writing a brief > about why I think the remedy in the Microsoft antitrust case was > inadequate. Back in the day, I wrote an essay about this; it's online at http://kegel.com/remedy/ in particular, http://www.usdoj.gov

Google "Summer of Code"

2005-05-31 Thread Daniel Kegel
Google is offering students summer stipends to contribute to open source projects! To qualify for a stipend, you have to submit a proposal by June 24th, and the proposal has to be approved. See http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html It would be cool if the Wine project put together a list of su

Re: Detecting ulimit problem

2005-05-19 Thread Daniel Kegel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2609 [Proposed fix:] struct rlimit address_limits; int required_address_space = 1024 * 1024 * 1400; /* 1400M */ getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &address_limits); if (address_limits.rlim_max < required_address_space) WINE_WARN("Your virtual

SEH and gcc again

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Kegel
The old SEH / gcc question came up again on the gcc mailing list; see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-05/msg00511.html and followups. If anyone has anything constructive to add to that thread, this is a good chance to get the story right before it shows up on ZDNet.

re: Winelib's role in converting Windows applications

2005-05-06 Thread Daniel Kegel
Ira Krakow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Wineconf, I had a number of conversations about Winelib's role in converting Windows apps. The consensus seems to be that the most efficient conversion path is for much of the Windows app to stay in Visual C++ (or whatever) and that only the modules that sp

Borrowing NTVFS layer from Samba4 for Wine?

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Kegel
Apologies if this is an old idea, but: Tridge's remarks in his recent interview make me think maybe Wine should be using the same NTVFS layer that Samba4 does. Who knows, maybe it'd be an easy fit... - Dan http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/08/2132221&from=rss NF: What are the big

Re: Wine cabinet.dll FDI Conformace Test Patch

2005-02-28 Thread Daniel Kegel
Andreas wrote: It's an unspoken rule that preprocessor directives (#ifdef, ...) always start at the very beginning of a line to make sure one recognizes immediately which parts of the code are being processed and which ones aren't. Good point. I should have caught that style violation when I revie

Re: RESEND: Enable GCOV Code Coverage

2005-02-02 Thread Daniel Kegel
Alexandre wrote: The changes may be small but they are ugly IMO. I don't think we need a configure option for that, it should be possible to simply do a 'make CFLAGS=xxx' with the appropriate options. We used a configure option by analogy with --disable-debug, I guess, and because it seems to be th

re: Wine dll testing state of affairs

2004-11-04 Thread Daniel Kegel
Jakob Eriksson (jakov_at_vmlinux.org) wrote: > I looked around in the Wine dlls tree to see how many dlls had a "tests" > directory in them. > Quite a few had, but these did not: > ... > lzexpand > ... FWIW, I think someone's about to submit tests for lzexpand. - Dan

Re: bogus patch to bind() dlls/winsock/socket.c (request removal)

2004-01-10 Thread Daniel Kegel
Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote: With this change, we can use the 6.3 version of Quicktime to see streamed video from Wineconf... This would break Grand Prix Legends and Nascar 2002 (Thats why the patch was written in the first place), maybe you should contact the author of the patch, a proper fix woul

Re: Installshield7 notes

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Kegel
"Gregory M. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in reply to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=wine-devel&m=106746370617833&w=2 : Could you recommend any particular installer that fails to me (preferably something I can download for free)? I'd be happy to take a look at this, although I can't make an