Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Kaplinskiy
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jerome Leclanche  wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> From what I understand, the problem is not your design. I don't want
> to put words in anyone's mouth, but to me it seems you and AJ agree on
> the final goal; Alexandre just doesn't want the "intermediary step" in
> the master tree (there could be many reasons for this).
> As you said, starting the move to gdi32 right now would be a huge
> waste of time (in maintenance and more), and prone to hell-knows how
> many regressions. You should get the DIB engine uploaded to its own
> repo or wine-hacks (http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/hacks.git).
> It's also been mentioned, but getting some documentation up and
> running on the wiki would be of great help. Maybe the authors of the
> previous DIB engine attempts could also give a shot at helping with
> that. People will also want (need) to know what they should test, how
> to test it, where to give feedback, what's still in the works, ...
>
> You've done a great job so far, here's hoping it gets sorted :)
>
> J
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Steven Edwards  wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
>>> IMHO, and really "in my opinion", loosing time to integrate it inside gdi32
>>> whithout proper guidelines would be crazy. I mean, I'd never do it :-)
>>> The intermediate step was made (among other reasons) to check if the
>>> upcoming driver had the chance to be accepted.
>>> Moving it *now* inside gdi32 would mean a big loss of time with almost no
>>> hopes to see it in mainstream, added to the above effort of keeping it
>>> in sync with changing gdi32.
>>> OTOH, if winedib would be embedded as-is or with some minor mods, I could
>>> od course take the job of moving it stepwise into gdi32.
>>
>> It seems to me the best course is keep developing it outside of the
>> tree until the remaining glitches are resolved and then try to
>> resubmit it by moving in to gdi32. At least if Alexandre still wants
>> to reject it due to remaining design issues, we have a good enough
>> alternative.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Steven Edwards
>>
>> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
>> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jerome Leclanche
>
>
>

I completely agree with Jerome, and would like to add that tests of
the DIB engine would probably be accepted into the tree. Since Max
knows the finer notches of the DIB engine, taking the time to write
some tests would seem to be a good idea - both to speed up the future
migration and to make sure we're not missing any quirks. It may also
help pinpoint certain bugs within the implementation.

Mike.




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-28 Thread Jerome Leclanche
Hi Max,

>From what I understand, the problem is not your design. I don't want
to put words in anyone's mouth, but to me it seems you and AJ agree on
the final goal; Alexandre just doesn't want the "intermediary step" in
the master tree (there could be many reasons for this).
As you said, starting the move to gdi32 right now would be a huge
waste of time (in maintenance and more), and prone to hell-knows how
many regressions. You should get the DIB engine uploaded to its own
repo or wine-hacks (http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/hacks.git).
It's also been mentioned, but getting some documentation up and
running on the wiki would be of great help. Maybe the authors of the
previous DIB engine attempts could also give a shot at helping with
that. People will also want (need) to know what they should test, how
to test it, where to give feedback, what's still in the works, ...

You've done a great job so far, here's hoping it gets sorted :)

J

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Steven Edwards  wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
>> IMHO, and really "in my opinion", loosing time to integrate it inside gdi32
>> whithout proper guidelines would be crazy. I mean, I'd never do it :-)
>> The intermediate step was made (among other reasons) to check if the
>> upcoming driver had the chance to be accepted.
>> Moving it *now* inside gdi32 would mean a big loss of time with almost no
>> hopes to see it in mainstream, added to the above effort of keeping it
>> in sync with changing gdi32.
>> OTOH, if winedib would be embedded as-is or with some minor mods, I could
>> od course take the job of moving it stepwise into gdi32.
>
> It seems to me the best course is keep developing it outside of the
> tree until the remaining glitches are resolved and then try to
> resubmit it by moving in to gdi32. At least if Alexandre still wants
> to reject it due to remaining design issues, we have a good enough
> alternative.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>
>
>



-- 
Jerome Leclanche




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-28 Thread Steven Edwards
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
> IMHO, and really "in my opinion", loosing time to integrate it inside gdi32
> whithout proper guidelines would be crazy. I mean, I'd never do it :-)
> The intermediate step was made (among other reasons) to check if the
> upcoming driver had the chance to be accepted.
> Moving it *now* inside gdi32 would mean a big loss of time with almost no
> hopes to see it in mainstream, added to the above effort of keeping it
> in sync with changing gdi32.
> OTOH, if winedib would be embedded as-is or with some minor mods, I could
> od course take the job of moving it stepwise into gdi32.

It seems to me the best course is keep developing it outside of the
tree until the remaining glitches are resolved and then try to
resubmit it by moving in to gdi32. At least if Alexandre still wants
to reject it due to remaining design issues, we have a good enough
alternative.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-28 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

HI Ben,

Ben Klein ha scritto:


Of course, it also makes it more difficult to maintain, with any
change in gdi32 needing to be mirrored in the forked DIB engine, but
that's where git cherry-picking can come in handy :)


Done for about 3 monthes, no more time for it :-)



What I was trying to say with my post was not to rehash old ideas, but
to say "here's where I feel you need to be going". AJ doesn't seem to
like the intermediary driver which forwards non-DIB requests, so in
order to get this into the upstream tree, what needs to be done is an
integration with gdi32, as in replacing the DIB-related methods with
the DIB-engine, instead of doing (what can be seen as a hack)
redirection of selected methods.

I believe that if the majority of the intermediary design (with the
intermediary driver) has been implemented and is working, it's time to
start thinking of integrating it into gdi32 so that it is suitable for
upstream inclusion.


IMHO, and really "in my opinion", loosing time to integrate it inside gdi32
whithout proper guidelines would be crazy. I mean, I'd never do it :-)
The intermediate step was made (among other reasons) to check if the
upcoming driver had the chance to be accepted.
Moving it *now* inside gdi32 would mean a big loss of time with almost no
hopes to see it in mainstream, added to the above effort of keeping it
in sync with changing gdi32.
OTOH, if winedib would be embedded as-is or with some minor mods, I could
od course take the job of moving it stepwise into gdi32.

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-28 Thread Ben Klein
2009/5/27 Massimo Del Fedele :
> 1) Huw's starting engine *was* a driver's one, and many people told it was
> the right way. Worse, it forked driver from inside gdi32, which was awful
> to maintain.

I can understand AJ preferring a fork of gdi32 to the intermediary
driver given what he's said on this thread. He wants DIB to be
integrated into gdi32 (which as I pointed out is also the way Windows
does it). This is much easier to do if the DIB-enabled gdi32 can be
used as a drop-in replacement for regular gdi32.

Of course, it also makes it more difficult to maintain, with any
change in gdi32 needing to be mirrored in the forked DIB engine, but
that's where git cherry-picking can come in handy :)

> 2) My engine insertrs itself between gdi32 and the display driver; I begins
> to be tired repeating that it's a step through the final design on where
> DIB are handled fully inside gdi32. The step is, imho, necessary to split
> DIB handling from DDB without having to rewrite at once half of gdi32 + half
> of winex11.drv and maybe others.
> It is *not* the final step, now it wants to be. It's made so to prepare
> the switching in a painless way, *if* accepted.
> If not, just prepare to have the sampe problems we had with mshtml
> switching on each gecko change. In my case that broke a lot of stuffs.

What I was trying to say with my post was not to rehash old ideas, but
to say "here's where I feel you need to be going". AJ doesn't seem to
like the intermediary driver which forwards non-DIB requests, so in
order to get this into the upstream tree, what needs to be done is an
integration with gdi32, as in replacing the DIB-related methods with
the DIB-engine, instead of doing (what can be seen as a hack)
redirection of selected methods.

I believe that if the majority of the intermediary design (with the
intermediary driver) has been implemented and is working, it's time to
start thinking of integrating it into gdi32 so that it is suitable for
upstream inclusion.




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-28 Thread Reece Dunn
2009/5/28 John Klehm :
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM, James McKenzie
>  wrote:
>> So what say all, shall we try to make coding better and as Max stated,
>> fun.  Most of the folks here do not support this project for a living
>> and we should not restrict this project to those who do.  However, it
>> appears that a vast majority of the patches are coming from those who
>> either are long time Wine 'hackers' or those whose living depends on
>> this project's survival.
>>
>
> I'm not sure why it's a strange thing that the people that spend the
> most time with wine code have the most patches committed.  To try and
> make an accusation that the project is restricted to paid peoples is
> both false and pointlessly inflammatory.
>
> If there was a glut of manpower there'd be plenty of time to give full
> reviews of every patch.  As it is everyone gives the time they can.

It also depends where your experience lies. I am predominantly a UI
developer, and having spent a long time writing UI code that is where
I feel most comfortable working in. That does not mean that I know the
behaviour of every Windows control inside and out, just that this is
an area I feel capable of working on.

I am in awe of what the DirectX developers have done. I doubt I would
be able to work in that area. Especially as I don't understand either
DirectX or OpenGL. Same goes for the GDI/DIB engine code, the crypto
code or a hundred other areas of the Windows API that Wine implements.

To work on an area of Wine, you need to have a deep understanding of
how the Windows API works. For some areas (such as implementing the
different Windows controls), you can do that purely through the
Windows API. For other areas, you also need an understanding of how
Linux/BSD/Mac/OpenSolaris/others implement that domain.

Wine has some very talented developers working on it. The problem
comes when you have some functionality (like the DIB engine) that cuts
across a large number of areas and requires a very deep understanding
of both Windows and Linux/etc to grasp what needs to be done. And yes,
that requires a lot of time and effort.

- Reece




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread John Klehm
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM, James McKenzie
 wrote:
> So what say all, shall we try to make coding better and as Max stated,
> fun.  Most of the folks here do not support this project for a living
> and we should not restrict this project to those who do.  However, it
> appears that a vast majority of the patches are coming from those who
> either are long time Wine 'hackers' or those whose living depends on
> this project's survival.
>

I'm not sure why it's a strange thing that the people that spend the
most time with wine code have the most patches committed.  To try and
make an accusation that the project is restricted to paid peoples is
both false and pointlessly inflammatory.

If there was a glut of manpower there'd be plenty of time to give full
reviews of every patch.  As it is everyone gives the time they can.

--John Klehm




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread James McKenzie
Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard ha scritto:
>>
>> The last time I rejected a simple patch from Massimo, he basically said
>> that he didn't have time to fix the patch and just dropped it. That
>> doesn't encourage me to spend more effort on reviewing his more complex
>> stuff.
>>
>
> Hi again :-)
>
> Well, to be precise those were some patches rejected, one with some
> explanation
> and others not.
> Former was about adding page size support to wineps.drv. I haven't
> dropped it,
> but you told me that an almost complete rewrite of cups printers
> handling was
> foreseen and preferred, so I kept it on my tree. I have really not
> enough skills
> nor time to do such a complex job. My patch was just sending the
> missing page size
> string to lpr along as printer name, which is by now the only stuff sent.
> I can understand, of course, that going through lpr is not a very nice
> way.
> I'm using the patch for my daily job, it's not dropped.
>
> Latters were one testcase (which was meant preparing some gdiplus
> patches) which
> was rejected because "too long" and "with meaningless comments" and a
> couple of
> gdiplus functions that were missing (and are still missing) needed by
> autocad to
> run with builtin gdiplus, rejected because "contains errors"
> (possible, but which ?) and
> were "a pain to review" (h).
> BTW, about comments, I'm sorry but my memory is not perfect and I tend
> to forget what I did
> and why after a couple of monthes, so the reason of maybe
> over-commenting all my code :-)
I tend to disagree with your self evaluation of 'too many'.  There is NO
such thing in coding.  I've seen code with too little comments and then
had to figure out what the heck the coder was trying to do inside the
code.  Of course, talking to the coder resulted in a "I know what I'm
doing" conversation that resulted in no forward movement on a fixable
problem that may have resulted in the company's demise.


> I must say that the must difficult part of writing my engine was to
> try to figure out what
> gdi32/winex11 code does, and some comments more woul have been of
> great help !
>
This is very true.  Code should at a minimum point out where the
examples can be found.  MSDN is very frustrating when it comes to how a
piece of code is supposed to work.

What I see here is a lack of assistance from those who grade the code. 
This is what I consider unacceptable and has resulted in the stoppage of
fixes being submitted by folks who 'code for food', that is they write
code for a living.  I evaluate and support programs for a living.  Guess
what?  I don't recommend that folks use Wine on Macs for production
level work.  It just is not 'there'.  Sadly, these same folks want to
walk away from using Microsoft Software because, pardon the phrase, it
just plain sucks.  It is poorly written and full of bugs (and some of
those bugs have been there for years.)  I appreciate AJs efforts to keep
the code base 'clean'.  In the process, however, you have to tell folks
what to do in order to keep the base clean.  That is just plain being
nice and is good ettiquitte.  Otherwise, all you are doing is attempting
to shoo away those who could really help move the project along and fix
long standing problems.  It does not take more time to state:  Your code
does not meet Wine standards because it has tabs in it", then to say
"You can do better".Adding comments to what a certain chunk of code
does is not expensive and it does make troubleshooting code much easier
at a later time by a different person.  One line comments are best. 

So what say all, shall we try to make coding better and as Max stated,
fun.  Most of the folks here do not support this project for a living
and we should not restrict this project to those who do.  However, it
appears that a vast majority of the patches are coming from those who
either are long time Wine 'hackers' or those whose living depends on
this project's survival.

James McKenzie






Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Howe
2009/5/27 Roderick Colenbrander 

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Vit Hrachovy 
> wrote:
> > would it be possible to craft a wikipage on Wine Wiki, that would
> encompass
> >  * official DIB implementation requirements
> >  * high level description of Huw's solution
> >  * description of Your solution incl. proposed integration plan
> >
>
> I have asked Alexandre about it but it wasn't really an option. Even
> for Huw writing a full dib engine (if he resumed his current code)
> would take five months or so full time. Filling in the 'easy' bits
> (which Alexandre considers most of the things done so far) is not that
> much work (the easy bits are the software drawing functions).


I'm not sure I understand this answer, as all but the first line doesn't
seem to relate to the question. Are you saying that you have been told
that making the documentation Vit described wasn't an option?

--
Chris



Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Vit Hrachovy  wrote:
> Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
>>
>> Btw, sorry all but I begins to be tired of telling same stuffs again and
>> again. I made a proposal for something that *could* help the migration to
>> final design, a *working* proposal, not just a prototype, and I believe on
>> it.
>> If that's not what most devels think, for me is ok.
>> The engine will be available as a patch for whom needs/likes it, point.
>
> Hi Max,
> would it be possible to craft a wikipage on Wine Wiki, that would encompass
>  * official DIB implementation requirements
>  * high level description of Huw's solution
>  * description of Your solution incl. proposed integration plan
>
> It would ease the orientation, prevent repeating the same stuff again and
> again and it could also serve as a solid base for further discussion about
> DIB integration requirements.
>
> Regards
> Hark
>
>
>

I have asked Alexandre about it but it wasn't really an option. Even
for Huw writing a full dib engine (if he resumed his current code)
would take five months or so full time. Filling in the 'easy' bits
(which Alexandre considers most of the things done so far) is not that
much work (the easy bits are the software drawing functions).

Roderick




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread Vit Hrachovy

Massimo Del Fedele wrote:

Btw, sorry all but I begins to be tired of telling same stuffs again and
again. I made a proposal for something that *could* help the migration to
final design, a *working* proposal, not just a prototype, and I believe 
on it.

If that's not what most devels think, for me is ok.
The engine will be available as a patch for whom needs/likes it, point.


Hi Max,
would it be possible to craft a wikipage on Wine Wiki, that would encompass
 * official DIB implementation requirements
 * high level description of Huw's solution
 * description of Your solution incl. proposed integration plan

It would ease the orientation, prevent repeating the same stuff again 
and again and it could also serve as a solid base for further discussion 
about DIB integration requirements.


Regards
Hark




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread Austin English
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
> Strange enough, as the consensus on Huw's design was great, and it used
> a *real* external driver, and *not* an intermediate one as mine.
> But I start thinking that the requirements and consensus are very fluid and
> moving matters, lately.
>
> Btw, sorry all but I begins to be tired of telling same stuffs again and
> again. I made a proposal for something that *could* help the migration to
> final design, a *working* proposal, not just a prototype, and I believe on
> it.
> If that's not what most devels think, for me is ok.
> The engine will be available as a patch for whom needs/likes it, point.

Not directed toward you, Massimo, but others:

Keep in mind, Massimo has sent patches dozens of times, along with
explanations/critiques. Unless you have something *NEW* to add (check
the archives), please refrain from commenting since in waste a lot of
time.
-- 
-Austin




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Ben Klein ha scritto:



A little while ago I was trying to run an app that uses Win16 DIB.DRV
(I forget which app it was). My research indicated that although
DIB.DRV was an actual driver (similar in architecture to Max's
proposed DIB engine) in Win16 systems, in Windows 95 the functionality
was rolled into GDI. For my app, this means that (in theory) exposing
appropriate, existing DIB functions to my Win16 app in the form of a
virtual DIB.DRV should work. For Max's engine, we're looking at
diverging from Microsoft's modern architecture and switching back to
something that was "good enough" 25 years ago.


I begin thinking to not be clear enough in what I write..
2 Last words:

1) Huw's starting engine *was* a driver's one, and many people told it was
the right way. Worse, it forked driver from inside gdi32, which was awful
to maintain.

2) My engine insertrs itself between gdi32 and the display driver; I begins
to be tired repeating that it's a step through the final design on where
DIB are handled fully inside gdi32. The step is, imho, necessary to split
DIB handling from DDB without having to rewrite at once half of gdi32 + half
of winex11.drv and maybe others.
It is *not* the final step, now it wants to be. It's made so to prepare
the switching in a painless way, *if* accepted.
If not, just prepare to have the sampe problems we had with mshtml
switching on each gecko change. In my case that broke a lot of stuffs.


We all know AJ wants things to be done "the right way" the first time.
I agree with this policy, because it makes for more maintainable code,
less duplication, etc.

again, I agree with that. Defining what is "the right way" is still a
mysterious matter.

 Wine's patch acceptance policy specifically

prohibits "hack it until it works,


which hack ?
 then worry about it later" style

programming, and the consensus of devs seems to be that adding a new
DIB *driver* as an intermediary between GDI32 and hardware drivers is
the wrong way to go about things.



Strange enough, as the consensus on Huw's design was great, and it used
a *real* external driver, and *not* an intermediate one as mine.
But I start thinking that the requirements and consensus are very fluid and
moving matters, lately.

Btw, sorry all but I begins to be tired of telling same stuffs again and
again. I made a proposal for something that *could* help the migration to
final design, a *working* proposal, not just a prototype, and I believe on it.
If that's not what most devels think, for me is ok.
The engine will be available as a patch for whom needs/likes it, point.

Last work about accepting or not hacks: I never proposed such patches.
The most "hacky" stuff I sent (and was rejected, with a motivation that
could be right) was the addition of page size handling inside wineps.drv.
Motivation was that the printer driver shoul be rewritten for cups without
lpr usage. I agree. But by now *is* using lpr and *is* lacking support
for page size and other stuffs.
So I asked myself : it's better to wait up we have the "complete right code",
leaving the printer driver missing stuffs, or for the moment extend it while
waiting for the right one ? I would have chosen the second solution, but as 
usual
is a matter of taste.

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Dmitry Timoshkov ha scritto:

"Massimo Del Fedele"  wrote:


The driver loading mechanics is the gdi32 one duplicated in winedib.drv.
winedib.drv just intercept DIB calls and forward others to *any* other
driver. Again, in my thoughts that is a "transient" phase, at the end all
dib processing should go inside gdi32.


Probably you need to have a look how support for truetype and other
fonts via freetype was added. Although there is an entity called "GDI
font" (with freetype support), still there is such a thing as device
fonts (suported by x11drv, psdrv or any other device driver). Make that
as an analogy: GDI font - DIB, device font - DDB. Adding support for GDI
fonts didn't require introducing any new "font driver", so adding a DIB
engine shouldn't add a new one as well. DIB engine should be a GDI32 pure
internal thing.



I begin to repeat stuffs too often lately.
As I already wrote, *I know* and *I agree* that DIB should belong to GDI32.
The proposed driver is a working step to that final goal. Point.

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Ben Klein
2009/5/27 Dmitry Timoshkov :
> "Massimo Del Fedele"  wrote:
>
>> The driver loading mechanics is the gdi32 one duplicated in winedib.drv.
>> winedib.drv just intercept DIB calls and forward others to *any* other
>> driver. Again, in my thoughts that is a "transient" phase, at the end all
>> dib processing should go inside gdi32.
>
> Probably you need to have a look how support for truetype and other
> fonts via freetype was added. Although there is an entity called "GDI
> font" (with freetype support), still there is such a thing as device
> fonts (suported by x11drv, psdrv or any other device driver). Make that
> as an analogy: GDI font - DIB, device font - DDB. Adding support for GDI
> fonts didn't require introducing any new "font driver", so adding a DIB
> engine shouldn't add a new one as well. DIB engine should be a GDI32 pure
> internal thing.

>From what I gather, the desired architecture is to integrate DIB
engine into GDI32 wherever applicable (so the current DIB-related
methods will be reimplemented with a possibly optional DIB engine).
This also seems to be in keeping with Max's end-goal architecture - to
integrate with GDI32.

A little while ago I was trying to run an app that uses Win16 DIB.DRV
(I forget which app it was). My research indicated that although
DIB.DRV was an actual driver (similar in architecture to Max's
proposed DIB engine) in Win16 systems, in Windows 95 the functionality
was rolled into GDI. For my app, this means that (in theory) exposing
appropriate, existing DIB functions to my Win16 app in the form of a
virtual DIB.DRV should work. For Max's engine, we're looking at
diverging from Microsoft's modern architecture and switching back to
something that was "good enough" 25 years ago.

We all know AJ wants things to be done "the right way" the first time.
I agree with this policy, because it makes for more maintainable code,
less duplication, etc. Wine's patch acceptance policy specifically
prohibits "hack it until it works, then worry about it later" style
programming, and the consensus of devs seems to be that adding a new
DIB *driver* as an intermediary between GDI32 and hardware drivers is
the wrong way to go about things.




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov

"Massimo Del Fedele"  wrote:


The driver loading mechanics is the gdi32 one duplicated in winedib.drv.
winedib.drv just intercept DIB calls and forward others to *any* other
driver. Again, in my thoughts that is a "transient" phase, at the end all
dib processing should go inside gdi32.


Probably you need to have a look how support for truetype and other
fonts via freetype was added. Although there is an entity called "GDI
font" (with freetype support), still there is such a thing as device
fonts (suported by x11drv, psdrv or any other device driver). Make that
as an analogy: GDI font - DIB, device font - DDB. Adding support for GDI
fonts didn't require introducing any new "font driver", so adding a DIB
engine shouldn't add a new one as well. DIB engine should be a GDI32 pure
internal thing.

--
Dmitry.




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Sergey Novosyolov
On Monday 25 May 2009 15:03:17 Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part
> of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, 

Does anyone have a mention about what a good design should be?
My mention is that DIB driver should not exist at all. All DIB functions 
should be released inside GDI32 as some functions already released (such as 
CreateDIBSection, CreateBitmap etc.)




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Alexandre Julliard ha scritto:


The last time I rejected a simple patch from Massimo, he basically said
that he didn't have time to fix the patch and just dropped it. That
doesn't encourage me to spend more effort on reviewing his more complex
stuff.



Hi again :-)

Well, to be precise those were some patches rejected, one with some explanation
and others not.
Former was about adding page size support to wineps.drv. I haven't dropped it,
but you told me that an almost complete rewrite of cups printers handling was
foreseen and preferred, so I kept it on my tree. I have really not enough skills
nor time to do such a complex job. My patch was just sending the missing page 
size
string to lpr along as printer name, which is by now the only stuff sent.
I can understand, of course, that going through lpr is not a very nice way.
I'm using the patch for my daily job, it's not dropped.

Latters were one testcase (which was meant preparing some gdiplus patches) 
which
was rejected because "too long" and "with meaningless comments" and a couple of
gdiplus functions that were missing (and are still missing) needed by autocad to
run with builtin gdiplus, rejected because "contains errors" (possible, but 
which ?) and
were "a pain to review" (h).
BTW, about comments, I'm sorry but my memory is not perfect and I tend to 
forget what I did
and why after a couple of monthes, so the reason of maybe over-commenting all 
my code :-)
I must say that the must difficult part of writing my engine was to try to 
figure out what
gdi32/winex11 code does, and some comments more woul have been of great help !

Anyways, to finish, I'm coding for fun (ops, I guess I already said that) and I 
also have a
job and a family that takes most of my time. If I don't see the possibility 
that my
patches are accepted in a couple of tentatives, I tend to keep them on my 
"maybe useful
stuffs" tree; otherwise if I see the possibility of having them published I can 
spend
a bit more time on them. Of course a comment like "a pain to review" doesn't 
push me
to work hard on it.

Ciao

Max






Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Alexandre Julliard ha scritto:

Hi Alexandre,



One of the main problems I see is that your design is based on the
premise that there's only one graphics driver, the X11 driver.


Well, I guess I expressed myself not completely corrected.
My engine do load the winex11 exactly as gdi32 does.
That means that in must not be winex11, it can be any driver that
gdi32 would have loaded. The loading phase is like this :

GDI32  <-- load any driver and gets function pointers for DC and bitmap 
(ORIGINAL)

GDI32 <-- load winedib.drv <-- load any driver (etcetera) (MY WAY)

The driver loading mechanics is the gdi32 one duplicated in winedib.drv.
winedib.drv just intercept DIB calls and forward others to *any* other
driver. Again, in my thoughts that is a "transient" phase, at the end all
dib processing should go inside gdi32.

 That's

clearly not the case, DIBs can be used with any driver (and with
multiple drivers at the same time). This is also why you can't have the
DIB driver decide on when to forward/not forward to the X11 driver, it
should go in the other direction.

I'm also very skeptical about mirroring DIBs with a DDB.


Well, that was just a thought. I think that maintaining a mirrored DDB copy
would slow down just a bit drawing operations but would speed up a lot blitting.
But it's not a need.

 But even if you

do this that should be a purely internal x11drv decision, the DIB engine
shouldn't have any notion about this at all. This means you can't expose
DIB->DDB conversion routines, DDBs are entirely up to the graphics
driver.


I was meaning exposing a "stripped-extended" version of GetDIBits and 
SetDIBits, allowing
partial image transfers. Again, that's not a need, it will just avoid code 
duplication
in gdi32 and winex11. That would allow gdi32 to read and write portions of DDB 
with a call
to winex11.
Like it is now, you need knowledge of different DIB formats both in winex11 AND 
in gdi32;
having this function would allow to move the "mixed blitting" stuffs almost 
completely inside
gdi32. That's also just a suggestion.
In my engine I have a bunch of PutLinexxx and GetLinexxx that do conversion 
from any format
do 32 bit RGBA and vice versa; the functions I spoke about are just extensions 
of them
for handling DDB conversion to/from 32 bit RGBA, and should reside, of course, 
in winex11.

I agree with you that the DDB caching of DIBs should be a winex11 stuff and 
totally transparent
to gdi32.

Thanx for answers

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Chris Morgan  writes:

> Wouldn't a review of the proposed dib engine be useful? One that
> included concerns, things that needed to be changed etc? Everyone
> involved seems to be asking for leadership and guidance about how to
> proceed, wouldn't a thorough review of the proposed design give
> direction towards an "acceptable" design?

Of course, but a thorough review takes time, lots of time. If you want
Huw or myself to invest that kind of time, you have to demonstrate that
it's worth it. That was my point about first establishing a track record
with simpler stuff.

The last time I rejected a simple patch from Massimo, he basically said
that he didn't have time to fix the patch and just dropped it. That
doesn't encourage me to spend more effort on reviewing his more complex
stuff.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julli...@winehq.org




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-26 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Massimo Del Fedele  writes:

> About point 4, which, I guess, is the most important for you, the next step 
> would be
> to make a winex11-2.drv on which DIB processing would be stripped away, and 
> with
> added DDB buffering of DIBs and mixed blit operations.
> That driver could be connected to (and tested with) winedib.drv, always as an 
> option
> in registry/environment.
> Once ready and stable enough it should be made permanently enabled and 
> remaining part of
> winedib.drv could be merged inside gdi32; that could also be made stepwise.
> Of course this design would mean some duplication of code in gdi32 and 
> winex11.drv, at least
> if we don't want to change something in driver function tables which 
> would be the
> best solution if it's not imposed by Microsoft behaviour (I didn't check that 
> one, nor
> I think to do it for the moment).
> A simple GetLine() * PutLine() that do translation between 32 bit RGBA <--> 
> DDB inside
> winex11.drv and callable by gdi32 would of course avoid all code duplication 
> needed for
> mixed blitting, keeping needed speed. That addition would be trivial.
>
> I think my design has some advantages and some disadvantages to other ones, 
> but it's
> superior to the "double pointer approach" taken before, for reasons already 
> explained.
> The main "disadvantage", maybe the only one, is to have for some time 2 
> different
> drivers in wine. but OTOH it allows deep testing without breaking 
> anything.

One of the main problems I see is that your design is based on the
premise that there's only one graphics driver, the X11 driver. That's
clearly not the case, DIBs can be used with any driver (and with
multiple drivers at the same time). This is also why you can't have the
DIB driver decide on when to forward/not forward to the X11 driver, it
should go in the other direction.

I'm also very skeptical about mirroring DIBs with a DDB. But even if you
do this that should be a purely internal x11drv decision, the DIB engine
shouldn't have any notion about this at all. This means you can't expose
DIB->DDB conversion routines, DDBs are entirely up to the graphics
driver.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julli...@winehq.org




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Chris Morgan  wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Alexandre Julliard
>  wrote:
>> Zachary Goldberg  writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Alexandre Julliard  
>>> wrote:

 Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part
 of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, validate it with
 a prototype,
>>>
>>> Would you, Alexandre, say we are at this point?  I.e. that Massimo's
>>> design is probably an alright prototype but he just hasn't convinced
>>> you/Huw yet and hasn't yet "anticipated common objections" etc.?
>>
>> Well, the prototype doesn't show much evidence of a good design. Maybe
>> Massimo has one in mind, but he hasn't explained it so far.
>>
>> --
>> Alexandre Julliard
>> julli...@winehq.org
>>
>
> Wouldn't a review of the proposed dib engine be useful? One that
> included concerns, things that needed to be changed etc? Everyone
> involved seems to be asking for leadership and guidance about how to
> proceed, wouldn't a thorough review of the proposed design give
> direction towards an "acceptable" design?
>
> Chris
>


If it wasn't clear, I was suggesting that  AJ and/or Huw would do this
review since they have knowledge of the issue and an opinion of how it
should be done :-)

Chris




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Alexandre Julliard
 wrote:
> Zachary Goldberg  writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Alexandre Julliard  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part
>>> of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, validate it with
>>> a prototype,
>>
>> Would you, Alexandre, say we are at this point?  I.e. that Massimo's
>> design is probably an alright prototype but he just hasn't convinced
>> you/Huw yet and hasn't yet "anticipated common objections" etc.?
>
> Well, the prototype doesn't show much evidence of a good design. Maybe
> Massimo has one in mind, but he hasn't explained it so far.
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
> julli...@winehq.org
>

Wouldn't a review of the proposed dib engine be useful? One that
included concerns, things that needed to be changed etc? Everyone
involved seems to be asking for leadership and guidance about how to
proceed, wouldn't a thorough review of the proposed design give
direction towards an "acceptable" design?

Chris




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread James McKenzie
Paul Vriens wrote:
> Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
>> The engine has still some known bugs (known by me :-) ) which are not
>> spotter
>> by wine testsuite, mostly related to coordinate spaces in xxxBlt
>> functions.
>
> Are they not spotted because the tests don't cover these? If so, would
> you be able/willing to add some tests to the test suite?
>
Paul:

Max knows about the problems and the tests.  He just does not have the
time right now to fix the problems and write the tests.  He has hinted
and asked others to help him.  I have no knowledge of the DIB engine nor
its processes, but I'd be willing to give it a go on the Mac, but I
don't have any programs that appear to use the functions.

James McKenzie





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Alexandre Julliard ha scritto:


Well, the prototype doesn't show much evidence of a good design. Maybe
Massimo has one in mind, but he hasn't explained it so far.



Well, I still think that the "goodness" of a design is a matter of taste.
My design is *a* design, started because of a personal need and evoluted
by *my* personal taste, which was the only way I had without proper roadmap.

Btw, I thought to have explained enough the reasons of the choosen design,
but I may be wrong so I'll put again here the pursued goals :

1) Something usable. That means something that don't work "just for a couple
of apps" but that work in general at least as current driver do.
This goal il about 90% to be reached, imho. It'll be 100% in a couple of
monthes, if my job will let me enough spare time.

2) Something optional. There's no point, imo, to make a driver that breaks
even just one app without the ability to fall back to original gdi32/winex11.
Goal 100% reached.

3) Provide a working engine that allow in deep testing of speed difference.
We know that *some* apps do benefit of it (again, autocad speed gain on TT
fonts is something like 50x - 100x), but I've seen that recent thoughts were
those of a limited speed gain Well, I think that many important apps could
benefit of it. Goal 80% reached, as mixed blitting is something slower than
original driver. No simple way to make it as fast without touching winex11.drv.

4) "prepare the road" to a definitive migration to what I think should be the
"right final design", so DIBs handled by gdi32 double buffered by DDB inside
winex11.drv; mixed blitting done inside winex11. I think that one would be the
only viable way if we want blitting speed *and* DIB drawing speed.
My driver is doing the needed separation of 2 processes. Once completed, moving
them into gdi32/winex11.drv should be quite easy and could be done stepwise.

5) for fun. Ops, that one should be the n. 1 :-)

About point 4, which, I guess, is the most important for you, the next step 
would be
to make a winex11-2.drv on which DIB processing would be stripped away, and with
added DDB buffering of DIBs and mixed blit operations.
That driver could be connected to (and tested with) winedib.drv, always as an 
option
in registry/environment.
Once ready and stable enough it should be made permanently enabled and 
remaining part of
winedib.drv could be merged inside gdi32; that could also be made stepwise.
Of course this design would mean some duplication of code in gdi32 and 
winex11.drv, at least
if we don't want to change something in driver function tables which would 
be the
best solution if it's not imposed by Microsoft behaviour (I didn't check that 
one, nor
I think to do it for the moment).
A simple GetLine() * PutLine() that do translation between 32 bit RGBA <--> DDB 
inside
winex11.drv and callable by gdi32 would of course avoid all code duplication 
needed for
mixed blitting, keeping needed speed. That addition would be trivial.

I think my design has some advantages and some disadvantages to other ones, but 
it's
superior to the "double pointer approach" taken before, for reasons already 
explained.
The main "disadvantage", maybe the only one, is to have for some time 2 
different
drivers in wine. but OTOH it allows deep testing without breaking anything.

I hope I explained enough about it. Technical details are in (maybe too 
abundants...) code
comments.

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Zachary Goldberg  writes:

> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Alexandre Julliard  
> wrote:
>>
>> Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part
>> of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, validate it with
>> a prototype,
>
> Would you, Alexandre, say we are at this point?  I.e. that Massimo's
> design is probably an alright prototype but he just hasn't convinced
> you/Huw yet and hasn't yet "anticipated common objections" etc.?

Well, the prototype doesn't show much evidence of a good design. Maybe
Massimo has one in mind, but he hasn't explained it so far.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julli...@winehq.org




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
>
> Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part
> of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, validate it with
> a prototype,

Would you, Alexandre, say we are at this point?  I.e. that Massimo's
design is probably an alright prototype but he just hasn't convinced
you/Huw yet and hasn't yet "anticipated common objections" etc.?




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Jan de Mooij  writes:

> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Chris Howe  wrote:
>> 2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele 
>>
>> Sorry to sound like a stuck record but the Wine website still lists
>> "write a DIB engine" as a requirement, and every time someone
>> does, the patches dissapear down a hole because they're "not
>> right". Someone document what "would be right", or take "write
>> a DIB engine" off the list. I'd love to have a go at documenting it
>> myself, but I don't have the time to reverse engineer it from a
>> few years' worth of rejected solutions.
>>
> Agreed. I would be willing to invest some time this summer in a DIB
> engine but it's impossible because of this. A wiki page describing the
> "right design" and what is needed in which component would be a great
> start. Maybe a goal for next WineConf?

Writing a DIB engine is not a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. A large part
of the task is precisely to come up with a good design, validate it with
a prototype, and then convince people (especially Huw and myself) that
your design is good, that you know what you are doing, that you have
anticipated the common objections and have good answers for them, that
you are willing to make requested changes, that you have good test
cases, etc.  Showing that it more or less works on a couple of apps, or
that it passes the (very few) existing gdi32 tests, is of course
necessary, but by no means enough. If you want to tackle this, it will
also help to have a good track record in getting simpler patches in
first.

Once all of this is done and the proper design is in place in the tree,
then there might be a number of fill-in-the-blanks tasks to implement
the less common graphics calls that would probably be stubbed out in the
first version. But we are nowhere near that point yet.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julli...@winehq.org




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Vriens

Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
The engine has still some known bugs (known by me :-) ) which are not 
spotter

by wine testsuite, mostly related to coordinate spaces in xxxBlt functions.


Are they not spotted because the tests don't cover these? If so, would 
you be able/willing to add some tests to the test suite?


--
Cheers,

Paul.




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Jan de Mooij
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Chris Howe  wrote:
> 2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele 
>
> Sorry to sound like a stuck record but the Wine website still lists
> "write a DIB engine" as a requirement, and every time someone
> does, the patches dissapear down a hole because they're "not
> right". Someone document what "would be right", or take "write
> a DIB engine" off the list. I'd love to have a go at documenting it
> myself, but I don't have the time to reverse engineer it from a
> few years' worth of rejected solutions.
>
Agreed. I would be willing to invest some time this summer in a DIB
engine but it's impossible because of this. A wiki page describing the
"right design" and what is needed in which component would be a great
start. Maybe a goal for next WineConf?

I understand people are working on other important issues and that's
much appreciated, but it's frustrating that so much valuable time has
been spent on this (discussions and code) for years and see all
attempts hit the same brick wall.




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-25 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Steven Edwards ha scritto:

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, James McKenzie
 wrote:

That's ugly.  Did you attempt to type in something in the Document area?


I've disabled all my Quartz hacks, the only thing sort of non-standard
I have is my custom FreeType with patented engine enabled and support
for SubPixel rendering turned on. Now that I think about it, that
could be a problem. I'll try another round of testing with that
disabled next.

Yes, it is MUCH faster rendering and scrolling and the like but there
are minor glitches with the font placement in the document area.
Notice how the word support and deployment overlap with the dib engine
and how the lines alternate color? The speed difference for editing is
like night and day. The header and footers for the document body
containing images renders fine. Installers such as ie6setup and msxml3
embedded images don't render properly, I'll try to upload images for
that as well in the morning. Bugzilla seems to be running quite slow
so I can't upload the images there. Comparison screenshots for Word
are here

http://steven-edwards.kicks-ass.org/~sedwards/Wine_1.1.22_Word2007_NO_DibEngine_OS_X.png
http://steven-edwards.kicks-ass.org/~sedwards/Wine_1.1.22_Word2007_With_DibEngine_OS_X.png

Since this is not likely to get merged in anytime soon, lets move the
rest of the OS X related discussions back to the bug when bugzilla
decides to stop munching on the pesticide. I'll try to file more
detailed reports as time permits.

Max this is wonderful progress, please keep up the good work!

Thanks


He Steven,

Thank you for testing and for your words :-)
The engine has still some known bugs (known by me :-) ) which are not spotter
by wine testsuite, mostly related to coordinate spaces in xxxBlt functions.
There is also a small stuff in AlphaBlend() with DDB as source, which is still
not implemented, but should be trivial too.
Another stuff that needs to be "fixed" is font handling; by now is not complete
even if it's mostly functional: it does not kerning (you can see it easily on 
some
apps, autocad too) and font sizes sometimes are wrong.
All these stuffs should be trivial to fix, but I have really few time on these 
days,
so it will take some time.

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Steven Edwards
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, James McKenzie
 wrote:
> That's ugly.  Did you attempt to type in something in the Document area?

I've disabled all my Quartz hacks, the only thing sort of non-standard
I have is my custom FreeType with patented engine enabled and support
for SubPixel rendering turned on. Now that I think about it, that
could be a problem. I'll try another round of testing with that
disabled next.

Yes, it is MUCH faster rendering and scrolling and the like but there
are minor glitches with the font placement in the document area.
Notice how the word support and deployment overlap with the dib engine
and how the lines alternate color? The speed difference for editing is
like night and day. The header and footers for the document body
containing images renders fine. Installers such as ie6setup and msxml3
embedded images don't render properly, I'll try to upload images for
that as well in the morning. Bugzilla seems to be running quite slow
so I can't upload the images there. Comparison screenshots for Word
are here

http://steven-edwards.kicks-ass.org/~sedwards/Wine_1.1.22_Word2007_NO_DibEngine_OS_X.png
http://steven-edwards.kicks-ass.org/~sedwards/Wine_1.1.22_Word2007_With_DibEngine_OS_X.png

Since this is not likely to get merged in anytime soon, lets move the
rest of the OS X related discussions back to the bug when bugzilla
decides to stop munching on the pesticide. I'll try to file more
detailed reports as time permits.

Max this is wonderful progress, please keep up the good work!

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread James McKenzie
Steven Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM, James McKenzie
>  wrote:
>   
>> Let me know how this goes.  I'm interested in improvements that will
>> help all *nixes, including MacOSX.
>> 
>
> I think I am using the latest patch, its dibeng_max.zip thats got the
> 1-10 patches.
>
> There are some major graphical glitches, though it could be related to
> me having Quartz Extreme and Quartz2d enabled on unsupported hardware.
> It does seem much faster though. Sorry I don't have time right now to
> do a complete report. I'll try to upload information to bugzilla in
> the morning after I make my environment a little more sane.
>
>   
That's ugly.  Did you attempt to type in something in the Document area?

I don't have the time tonight to attempt to build and run the DIB stuff
to see what it does to the games and other programs that I work with.

Maybe, tomorrow afternoon after my bicycle ride.

James McKenzie





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread James McKenzie
Steven Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
>   
>> André Hentschel ha scritto:
>> No idea on what will happen with Mac or other unixes
>> 
>
> I am attempting a Mac build now. As with the rest of the discussion,
> It would be nice if we could produce a PE version using something like
> cygwin with X11 headers and the -mno-cygwin switch but I don't know if
> this would really work. If did then it should work on everything.
>   
Let me know how this goes.  I'm interested in improvements that will
help all *nixes, including MacOSX.

James McKenzie





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Steven Edwards
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
> André Hentschel ha scritto:
> No idea on what will happen with Mac or other unixes

I am attempting a Mac build now. As with the rest of the discussion,
It would be nice if we could produce a PE version using something like
cygwin with X11 headers and the -mno-cygwin switch but I don't know if
this would really work. If did then it should work on everything.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Ben Klein
2009/5/25 Massimo Del Fedele :
> André Hentschel ha scritto:
>>
>> I dont know anything about that, but may it be possible to compile your
>> code to a standalone driver for seperate download?
>> It would be great to just install a DIB-Driver for wine.
>> Sorry if that was a stupid idea.
>>
> The idea is not stupid at all :-)
> I was thinking to do it, but I don't know for how many
> machines a separate compile would be needed.
> I'm working on ubuntu64, and I tested just migrating the
> 2 DLLs on an ubuntu32 and it do work, so I guess it should
> work on most linuxes.
> No idea on what will happen with Mac or other unixes

To make this work and be as portable as possible, you'd need to
produce pure win32 DLLs (not ELF/PE hybrid .dll.so files). You would
then only need to distribute win32 and win64 variants, and not need to
worry about all the different kernels/libc's Wine is capable of
running on. :)




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

André Hentschel ha scritto:

Massimo Del Fedele schrieb:

André Hentschel ha scritto:
I dont know anything about that, but may it be possible to compile 
your code to a standalone driver for seperate download?

It would be great to just install a DIB-Driver for wine.
Sorry if that was a stupid idea.


The idea is not stupid at all :-)
I was thinking to do it, but I don't know for how many
machines a separate compile would be needed.
I'm working on ubuntu64, and I tested just migrating the
2 DLLs on an ubuntu32 and it do work, so I guess it should
work on most linuxes.
No idea on what will happen with Mac or other unixes

Max





would you provide your builds for us?





Can do on next days.
But I need some place on where to put the precompiled dlls... I guess
nor bug421 page nor here are good places for it.

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread André Hentschel

Massimo Del Fedele schrieb:

André Hentschel ha scritto:
I dont know anything about that, but may it be possible to compile 
your code to a standalone driver for seperate download?

It would be great to just install a DIB-Driver for wine.
Sorry if that was a stupid idea.


The idea is not stupid at all :-)
I was thinking to do it, but I don't know for how many
machines a separate compile would be needed.
I'm working on ubuntu64, and I tested just migrating the
2 DLLs on an ubuntu32 and it do work, so I guess it should
work on most linuxes.
No idea on what will happen with Mac or other unixes

Max





would you provide your builds for us?




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

André Hentschel ha scritto:
I dont know anything about that, but may it be possible to compile your 
code to a standalone driver for seperate download?

It would be great to just install a DIB-Driver for wine.
Sorry if that was a stupid idea.


The idea is not stupid at all :-)
I was thinking to do it, but I don't know for how many
machines a separate compile would be needed.
I'm working on ubuntu64, and I tested just migrating the
2 DLLs on an ubuntu32 and it do work, so I guess it should
work on most linuxes.
No idea on what will happen with Mac or other unixes

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread André Hentschel

I dont know anything about that, but may it be possible to compile your code to 
a standalone driver for seperate download?
It would be great to just install a DIB-Driver for wine.
Sorry if that was a stupid idea.




Nope, and I think they will not be solved soon. Not by me, anyways.
I made my engine because I was needing it, but Alexandre don't like
its architecture, so it won't be merged even if, IMHO of course, it
could be done as an "alternative experimental driver" in parallel to
current winex11 one, which could spread its usage and testing a lot
more. But Alexandre didn't like that solution, ever.

Ciao

Max









Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Chris Howe
2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele 


> I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural
>> issues been solved yet?
>>
>>  Nope, and I think they will not be solved soon. Not by me, anyways.
> I made my engine because I was needing it, but Alexandre don't like
> its architecture, so it won't be merged even if, IMHO of course, it
> could be done as an "alternative experimental driver" in parallel to
> current winex11 one, which could spread its usage and testing a lot
> more. But Alexandre didn't like that solution, ever.
>

I assume all this took place on IRC because unless I missed it,
Alexandre hasn't deigned to comment on here about what the
right architectural solution would be.

Sorry to sound like a stuck record but the Wine website still lists
"write a DIB engine" as a requirement, and every time someone
does, the patches dissapear down a hole because they're "not
right". Someone document what "would be right", or take "write
a DIB engine" off the list. I'd love to have a go at documenting it
myself, but I don't have the time to reverse engineer it from a
few years' worth of rejected solutions.

--
Chris



Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Kai Blin ha scritto:

On Sunday 24 May 2009 06:54:10 Ben Klein wrote:


Does that mean it's time to remove these todos (and make them full
tests) or are they still wanted for the case where Max's DIB engine is
not installed?


They are full tests, they're just marked as not passing in wine. Which they 
don't. At least not until wine has a DIB engine.


Most but not all of them. A few of them could be fixed anyways.



I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural
issues been solved yet?


It seems like Max and Alexandre agreed to disagree. I wouldn't hold my breath 
for this code to be merged to the main tree. Unfortunately, Max seems to like 
using Bugzilla to let people track his patches, instead of dumping them into 
some git tree, which would make keeping track of updates easier. His call of 
course.


The problem here is that I've got no time to maintain an updated git tree with
my engine and I'm still fixing stuffs, so I prefere to manage my patchset
directly in order to avoid a 1000+ patches on my tree.
Dumping my patchset on a git tree wouldn't make its usage easier and would
make me loose time and bandwidth to maintain it.
People able to check out a git tree and build it are also able to apply the
patchset to a clean one. It makes them spare time, too, as they don't have to
maintain and build 2 different trees. With stacked git it's easy to add/remove
the patchset.
Anyways, if somebody wont take the (again, useless imho) job of maintain an
updated tree with it, feel free to do it :-)

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Ben Klein ha scritto:

2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele :

Austin English ha scritto:

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Massimo Del Fedele 
wrote:

I posted on bug 421 page (as usual) latest update of my engine.
It suld pass all tests in wine suite also all bitmap's todo_wines,
so expect some "false positive" signaled by tests.

Austin, could you please re-run it on your test machines ?

Sorry for the delay. New residence has crappy wireless internet, need
to find a better solution.

Anywho, I've still got a failure:
palette.c:105: Test failed: getColor=00302010

http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:palette.html


Yep, I've seen it sorry, I checked out just the bitmap suite.
It's trivial to fix, will do on next release


Yep, several todo's are passing now:

http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:bitmap.html


too bad that the suite marks them as failures :-)


Does that mean it's time to remove these todos (and make them full
tests) or are they still wanted for the case where Max's DIB engine is
not installed?


I guess not, wine is not passing them, and it won't pass most of them without
a proper DIB engine. Some of them are independent of dib engine, indeed, and
could be fixed anyways.


I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural
issues been solved yet?


Nope, and I think they will not be solved soon. Not by me, anyways.
I made my engine because I was needing it, but Alexandre don't like
its architecture, so it won't be merged even if, IMHO of course, it
could be done as an "alternative experimental driver" in parallel to
current winex11 one, which could spread its usage and testing a lot
more. But Alexandre didn't like that solution, ever.

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Kai Blin
On Sunday 24 May 2009 06:54:10 Ben Klein wrote:

> Does that mean it's time to remove these todos (and make them full
> tests) or are they still wanted for the case where Max's DIB engine is
> not installed?

They are full tests, they're just marked as not passing in wine. Which they 
don't. At least not until wine has a DIB engine.

> I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural
> issues been solved yet?

It seems like Max and Alexandre agreed to disagree. I wouldn't hold my breath 
for this code to be merged to the main tree. Unfortunately, Max seems to like 
using Bugzilla to let people track his patches, instead of dumping them into 
some git tree, which would make keeping track of updates easier. His call of 
course.

Cheers,
Kai

-- 
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Wine developerhttp://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin
Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/
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Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-23 Thread Ben Klein
2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele :
> Austin English ha scritto:
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Massimo Del Fedele 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I posted on bug 421 page (as usual) latest update of my engine.
>>> It suld pass all tests in wine suite also all bitmap's todo_wines,
>>> so expect some "false positive" signaled by tests.
>>>
>>> Austin, could you please re-run it on your test machines ?
>>
>> Sorry for the delay. New residence has crappy wireless internet, need
>> to find a better solution.
>>
>> Anywho, I've still got a failure:
>> palette.c:105: Test failed: getColor=00302010
>>
>> http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:palette.html
>>
> Yep, I've seen it sorry, I checked out just the bitmap suite.
> It's trivial to fix, will do on next release
>
>> Yep, several todo's are passing now:
>>
>> http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:bitmap.html
>>
> too bad that the suite marks them as failures :-)

Does that mean it's time to remove these todos (and make them full
tests) or are they still wanted for the case where Max's DIB engine is
not installed?

I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural
issues been solved yet?




Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-23 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

Austin English ha scritto:

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:

I posted on bug 421 page (as usual) latest update of my engine.
It suld pass all tests in wine suite also all bitmap's todo_wines,
so expect some "false positive" signaled by tests.

Austin, could you please re-run it on your test machines ?


Sorry for the delay. New residence has crappy wireless internet, need
to find a better solution.

Anywho, I've still got a failure:
palette.c:105: Test failed: getColor=00302010
http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:palette.html


Yep, I've seen it sorry, I checked out just the bitmap suite.
It's trivial to fix, will do on next release


Yep, several todo's are passing now:
http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:bitmap.html


too bad that the suite marks them as failures :-)


Full report:
http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/report.html
(The user32 failure can be ignored, I get that spuriously without DIB engine).



Thank you for report.
I still have to do a couple of optimizations, some font cleanups and then it'll 
be finished.
I guess I'll setup a build machine for debian/ubuntu packages shortly.

Ciao

Max





Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-23 Thread Austin English
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Massimo Del Fedele  wrote:
> I posted on bug 421 page (as usual) latest update of my engine.
> It suld pass all tests in wine suite also all bitmap's todo_wines,
> so expect some "false positive" signaled by tests.
>
> Austin, could you please re-run it on your test machines ?

Sorry for the delay. New residence has crappy wireless internet, need
to find a better solution.

Anywho, I've still got a failure:
palette.c:105: Test failed: getColor=00302010
http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:palette.html

Yep, several todo's are passing now:
http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/gdi32:bitmap.html

Full report:
http://test.winehq.org/data/b175a43fb8439a33a686512935597d4c43c19733/wine_ae-ub904-dib/report.html
(The user32 failure can be ignored, I get that spuriously without DIB engine).

-- 
-Austin




DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-22 Thread Massimo Del Fedele

I posted on bug 421 page (as usual) latest update of my engine.
It suld pass all tests in wine suite also all bitmap's todo_wines,
so expect some "false positive" signaled by tests.

Austin, could you please re-run it on your test machines ?

Ciao

Max