Missing Registry Value "VersionNumber"

2004-08-12 Thread "Adrian Willenbücher"
I tried to install MS Visual Studio 6, but the install program exited after two seconds without error message. When I read the debug logs, I found out that the installer needs the following value: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\VersionNumber I had a look at my original Windows (98 S

Re: Acknowledgment page

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Vincent
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:25:26 -0400, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy White wrote: > > Hmm. I have several thoughts on this. First, I think > > that corporate sponsors get enough 'props'. While I appreciate > > the gesture, I'd rather the acknowledgements page highlight > > the many people

Re: Development model/versioning stuff: Interesting essay on why decentralised versioning is a bad idea

2004-08-12 Thread Lionel Ulmer
> What are peoples thoughts on this? It's not (despite appearances) an > argument against BitKeeper due to licensing concerns, but rather a short > paper on why the author believes the "pyramid" patch/development > system is a bad idea. Well, if you agree with the article, you are basically sa

Re: Acknowledgment page

2004-08-12 Thread Tom
Jeremy White wrote: Hmm. I have several thoughts on this. First, I think that corporate sponsors get enough 'props'. While I appreciate the gesture, I'd rather the acknowledgements page highlight the many people who do good work for Wine without pay or other recompense. Hello Jer, But that would

Re: Win API Stats

2004-08-12 Thread Hans Leidekker
On Thursday 12 August 2004 17:31, Francois Gouget wrote: > ./tools/winapi/winapi_extract --pseudo-stub-statistics --no-verbose --no-progress > loader/preloader.c: 226: syntax error: 'ElfW(auxv_t) *av' I have looked into this in the past and IIRC winapi does it's own C parsing, but has no preproce

Re: Acknowledgment page

2004-08-12 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:56:24AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote: > Hmm. I have several thoughts on this. First, I think > that corporate sponsors get enough 'props'. While I appreciate > the gesture, I'd rather the acknowledgements page highlight > the many people who do good work for Wine without >

Re: ATL: DllRegsterServer

2004-08-12 Thread Mike McCormack
Steven Edwards wrote: Note: While this does allow my test app to install and run I dont think this is correct because I dont have the ATL CLSID. Changelog: Implement DllRegsterServer and DllUnregsterServer Windows 2000 has: ["CLSID\\{44EC053A-400F-11D0-9DCD-00A0C90391D3}"] @="Registrar Class" ["CLS

Re: Win API Stats

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Hearn
./tools/winapi/winapi_extract --pseudo-stub-statistics --no-verbose --no-progress loader/preloader.c: 226: syntax error: 'ElfW(auxv_t) *av' Unfortunately I have not had the courage to go dig in winapi_extract to find out how to get it to cope with this construct. (consider this a call for volunteer

Re: Win API Stats

2004-08-12 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Tom wrote: > Hello, > > The Win API Stats page is broken in a bad way! > See: http://www.winehq.org/site/winapi_stats Actually I now have a cron script that updates my page regularly. However it's been failing since 2004/06/05 witht he following error: ./tools/winapi/winapi_

Re: Acknowledgment page

2004-08-12 Thread Jeremy White
Hmm. I have several thoughts on this. First, I think that corporate sponsors get enough 'props'. While I appreciate the gesture, I'd rather the acknowledgements page highlight the many people who do good work for Wine without pay or other recompense. I'm not suggesting you remove credit for corpo

Re: Win API Stats

2004-08-12 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:36:38AM -0400, Tom wrote: > Hello, > > The Win API Stats page is broken in a bad way! > See: http://www.winehq.org/site/winapi_stats > I think we should just go with > http://fgouget.free.fr/wine/winapi_stats-en.shtml No, we should just fix it, it was working fine some

Re: dsound mixer speedup

2004-08-12 Thread Robert Reif
Joerg Mayer wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:24:20AM -0400, Robert Reif wrote: Speed up mixing and unmixing by moving sample size and buffer wrap tests to outside the loop. The code is not as compact or pretty but it should be faster. Just out of curiosity: *IS* it really faster? Maybe g

Re: Future of .wine/config

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Although this increases simplicity, it also narrows the user in his possiblities to adjust wine to his needs. How many options in the config file do you adjust? I mean, really, options like: * PerfectGraphics: what does this do? Hands up anybody who can tell me without grepping the source. How m

Re: Future of .wine/config

2004-08-12 Thread "Adrian Willenbücher"
> We know that, this is why we're: > > a) Eliminating as many config options as possible Although this increases simplicity, it also narrows the user in his possiblities to adjust wine to his needs. To take away configuration options from the user seems to be a trend within the wine developers' c

Development model/versioning stuff: Interesting essay on why decentralised versioning is a bad idea

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Hearn
http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot What are peoples thoughts on this? It's not (despite appearances) an argument against BitKeeper due to licensing concerns, but rather a short paper on why the author believes the "pyramid" patch/development system is a bad idea. Alexandre ha

Re: config converting problem

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Hearn
A. well, fine, I suppose we could argue all day over what "most users" might do, but I myself certainly run more than "one or two apps" under Wine, because 1) I play games and 2) there are currently about 4 apps that are more convienient for me to run under Wine atm than to try to under

Re: Future of .wine/config

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Adrian Willenbücher wrote: 1. Even if the registry keys and values of wine's configuration should be well documented, it's easier to set some values using a text editor than to use regedit and look for the keys. We know that, this is why we're: a) Eliminating as many config options as possible b) W

Re: developers-hints.diff

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Hearn
It looks odd because the existing lines have tabs, but the added lines have 8 spaces instead. Yes, it's a very annoying problem, but I think it's purely aesthetic. Once applied the code should look OK in CVS. If anybody knows some emacs magic to figure out if the buffer seems to use tabs rather

Win API Stats

2004-08-12 Thread Tom
Hello, The Win API Stats page is broken in a bad way! See: http://www.winehq.org/site/winapi_stats I think we should just go with http://fgouget.free.fr/wine/winapi_stats-en.shtml and link to it. and kindly ask Francois to update it from time to time. And it has always been far better than the pag

Acknowledgment page

2004-08-12 Thread Tom
Hello everyone, A couple months back I voulenteered to do a Acknowledgment page and to say the least i'm a bit stuck. I have a first draft/alpha that i'm going to attach here. I would like to know if there is anyone who would like join me in doing this page? Or if anyone here has some ideas on ho

RE: usb support in ROS

2004-08-12 Thread Ge van Geldorp
> From: Tom > > Steven is USB by chance working in ROS? > http://cvs.reactos.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/reactos/w32api/include/ddk/ No, not yet. Some work is being done on USB but it will take a while before support is finished. Ge van Geldorp.

Re: X11DRV: Fix signed/unsigned comparison warnings

2004-08-12 Thread Rein Klazes
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:10:29 +0200, you wrote: > static int LookupEntry(LFANDSIZE *plfsz) > { > - int i, prev_i = -1; > + unsigned int i; > + int prev_i = -1; > >for(i = mru; i >= 0; i = glyphsetCache[i].next) { ^^^ Hey, this comparison is now always true, does gc