Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread nn
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cross-compiler availability (was Re: Wine on cygwin)

2009-07-27 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
I think on most shells, you need to backslash escape the * - i.e. yum install mingw32\* Just to cover all grounds, I came across the opensuse location of SuSE cross-compiler recently on the mono web site. (search in http://www.go-mono.com or www.mono-project.com) since win32 mono can be

Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a lot of the actual words trouble me. There's a lot of stuff from the dark ages still lurking around that we don't actually want users to see. Accordingly,

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:09 AM, nnsaturn_syst...@yahoo.com wrote: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage wine-patches the black hole of code? http://kazade.livejournal.com/2451.html       Access Yahoo!7 Mail on

Re: RFC XRender add support for dibsections in more color depths

2009-07-27 Thread Matej Spindler
Roderick Colenbrander wrote: Hi all, This is an updated version of my patch. It should fix the XChangeGC crash but the text color issue in that japanese game is still around. I hope to receive some more feed back. Roderick Hi Roderick With this patch Room Arranger crashes with: X Error of

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Damjan Jovanovic damjan@gmail.com wrote: Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get feedback? Think again. I think it's not worth an effort to take seriously one post of apparently clueless anonymous user and a forward to wine-devel of another anonymous user. We've

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Damjan Jovanovic damjan@gmail.com wrote: Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get feedback? Think again. I think it's not worth an effort to take seriously one post of apparently clueless anonymous user and a forward to wine-devel of

Re: Help resources for wine-users mailing list

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Frédéric Delanoy wrote: Over and over, I see help requests on wine-users with responses like installed latest wine, read FAQ section x.y, ... Wouldn't it be useful to send a regular reminder (like every month, and on subscription)? This would contain: - how to upgrade to latest version

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Remco
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Scott Ritchiesc...@open-vote.org wrote: Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a lot of the actual words trouble me.  There's a lot of stuff from the dark ages

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:53 -0700 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote: I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may potentially dismiss us

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Austin English
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Scott Ritchiesc...@open-vote.org wrote: 2) Remove the unmaintained porting status page: http://www.winehq.org/status/porting  - I don't believe this data is useful to anyone, and if it is it should be imported into the wiki so it can actually be updated. Not

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Blin
On Monday 27 July 2009 13:08:44 Scott Ritchie wrote: First the patchwatcher tool told them their first patch broke the test suite on a platform they didn't think of. Probably doable, once we get patchwatcher back up. Then their second patch, which passed, was put on a landing page where

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Remco wrote: Small suggestion from me: On the index page, change Information into About. * About is a keyword used in many apps that means: info about this program * The icon already tells you it's information. * Information is very broad. Most of the site is information. Remco Heh,

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Rosanne DiMesio wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:53 -0700 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote: I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread David Gerard
Rosanne DiMesio wrote: You should also take a look at the Debunking Wine Myths page, particularly Myth 6. Touting Office XP as an example of a fairly new application that works in Wine does not inspire confidence. Sounds like that should be moved to the wiki. Documents probably belong on

Re: RFC XRender add support for dibsections in more color depths

2009-07-27 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
Hi, This version should hopefully fix your issues. I hope it also fixes other gc issues .. I'm not sure if the patch is correct yet though. Roderick On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Matej Spindlerspindler.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Roderick Colenbrander wrote: Hi all, This is an updated

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Jeremy Newman
Scott Ritchie wrote: I'm also trying to cleanup anything that suggests our website hasn't been updated in 5 years. That means, for instance, removing the link to the interviews that are all from 5 years ago ;) I do not think we should remove/hide the links to old articles like our

Re: [1/5] ntdll: Fix ProcessExecuteFlag logic

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Karcher
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 13:24 +0900 schrieb Dmitry Timoshkov: Michael Karcher w...@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de wrote: The meaning of enable is the same in Windows and Wine: it enables the execute permission, not the data execution prevention. JFYI, I based my original patch on the

Re: [2/5] ntdll/tests: Implement tests for data execution prevention.

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Karcher
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 13:28 +0900 schrieb Dmitry Timoshkov: The tests will be skipped on Wine until next patch, as the not-yet-implemented NtQueryInformationProcess(...,ProcessExecuteFlags,...,...) call is used to detect a DEP-capable platform. These tests should added to existing

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Jeremy Newman wrote: Scott Ritchie wrote: I'm also trying to cleanup anything that suggests our website hasn't been updated in 5 years. That means, for instance, removing the link to the interviews that are all from 5 years ago ;) I do not think we should remove/hide the links to old

spam post on wine-users forum...

2009-07-27 Thread Dan Kegel
What's the procedure for dealing with forum spam like http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5655 ?

Re: spam post on wine-users forum...

2009-07-27 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Dan Kegel wrote: What's the procedure for dealing with forum spam like http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5655 ? Delete the post, that's all we can do. Can't ban any user (not like it will work anyway, most spam comes from disposable accounts). So far it hasn't been all that bad, few

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
David Gerard wrote: Rosanne DiMesio wrote: You should also take a look at the Debunking Wine Myths page, particularly Myth 6. Touting Office XP as an example of a fairly new application that works in Wine does not inspire confidence. Sounds like that should be moved to the wiki.