Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-05-01 Thread Gavriel State
Dan Kegel wrote: > > Jeremy White wrote: > > With COM, the other issue is that someone needs to look at the MS patents > > in this area. Mainsoft is telling people that they can't use Wine to > > port COM code, because Microsoft holds patents on some of the Vtable > > logic used in COM (and no,

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Jeremy White wrote: > With COM, the other issue is that someone needs to look at the MS patents > in this area. Mainsoft is telling people that they can't use Wine to > port COM code, because Microsoft holds patents on some of the Vtable > logic used in COM (and no, I don't have any more detail t

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Bond
From: "Jeremy White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For local marshalling we could use our own protocol and even our own way of ipc if we don't try to mix processes with native and wine com-dll's. It com server is only interested in the result ;-). And isn't the com marshallin

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:47:01PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Jeremy White wrote: > > > This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently > > > working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on > > > getting the various mutations of InstallShield worki

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Jeremy White
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As for doing the 10k+ lines of coding myself, I have experience in > > (de)marshalling and network coding, spent many years doing it, it's more a > > matter of available time and learning the com wire protocols, neither of which > > are currently available to me. He

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread juergen . schmied
> As for doing the 10k+ lines of coding myself, I have experience in > (de)marshalling and network coding, spent many years doing it, it's more a > matter of available time and learning the com wire protocols, neither of which > are currently available to me. Here's to hoping someone is already w

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Bond
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:47:01PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > http://freedce.sourceforge.net/ is an open source project to implement COM. > It's been around quite some time, and started off from the same > DCE sources that Microsoft based its stuff on. > (See also http://linas.org/linux/corba.html

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Bond
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:41:07PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > Well, that's not in Wine, at least... the Black & White installer fails > after something about CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER that's not implemented. Do you > mean it's in the Corel tree? CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER and CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER are the clas

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Jeremy White wrote: > > This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently > > working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on > > getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems > > to be pretty common across all InstallShei

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Gavriel State wrote: > Mike Bond wrote: > > > > This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently > > working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on > > getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seem

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Bond
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Gavriel State wrote: > The fix we put into the TransGaming tree was from Andreas Mohr, and it > fixed some problems related to previous versions of InstallSheild. We > haven't made any progress on v6. > > We'd certainly like to see it get done, but our

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Gavriel State
Mike Bond wrote: > > This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently > working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on > getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems > to be pretty common across all InstallSheild v6 ba

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Jeremy White
> This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently > working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on > getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems > to be pretty common across all InstallSheild v6 based installers I've

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Mike Bond
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:24:26PM +0200, Juergen Schmied wrote: > > > > > My question, is anyone currently working on implementing CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER > > > > in compobj.c:CoGetClassObject, or have plans to work on this in the near > > > > future? If not, I may go back to trying to figure out wh

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-25 Thread Juergen Schmied
> > > My question, is anyone currently working on implementing CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER > > > in compobj.c:CoGetClassObject, or have plans to work on this in the near > > > future? If not, I may go back to trying to figure out what is happening > > > with the 'native' configuration. > > > > This will

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-22 Thread Daniel Walker
Marcus Meissner wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:42:24AM -0400, Mike Bond wrote: > > > > My question, is anyone currently working on implementing CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER > > in compobj.c:CoGetClassObject, or have plans to work on this in the near > > future? If not, I may go back to trying to f

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-18 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:42:24AM -0400, Mike Bond wrote: > Quick brief, I've been lurking for quite some time around WineHQ and the > wine project, but don't really have time for putting a lot of devel into > it. It seems wine is finally getting close enough to working for most > things that I c

InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-18 Thread Mike Bond
Quick brief, I've been lurking for quite some time around WineHQ and the wine project, but don't really have time for putting a lot of devel into it. It seems wine is finally getting close enough to working for most things that I can put some time into tracking problems without gobbling up many ho