Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-09 Thread Ekkehard Morgenstern
Kuba Ober wrote: Popping up console windows is equal to not working for me. (...) Also, I'd love it a lot if all the ncurses crap was avoided. The compilers output plain text on the standard output (whatever that is on windows). Why don't you just use wcmd app? As I gather, wineconsole

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-09 Thread Ekkehard Morgenstern
Alexandre Julliard wrote: Your mailer wrapped the patch, please resend it. How? Do you think it will work as an attachment? I'm using Mozilla Mail. Also please send separate changes as separate patches, OK and try to follow the coding conventions of the surrounding code. I will have

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-09 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Ekkehard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would also like to replace WCMD with a compatible, but much better version, sometime. How would I go about that? Can I provide a patch for a whole folder? The usual way is to fix one bug at a time... If you are suggesting a complete rewrite

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-09 Thread Ekkehard Morgenstern
Alexandre Julliard wrote: The usual way is to fix one bug at a time... If you are suggesting a complete rewrite you'll need to make a very convincing case that throwing away the existing code is preferable to fixing it. Well, WCMD allows only 2 arguments, for instance. IMNSHO the code is

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-09 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Ekkehard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, WCMD allows only 2 arguments, for instance. IMNSHO the code is effed-up beyond repair, and I would rather rewrite it than expand on it. But I won't bother writing a replacement if it's not desired by the WINE community. wcmd certainly

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Eric Pouech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also changing the default to user is a bad idea... especially for users wanting to run a text only win32 app from a linux console without X started I think that's a very small minority, what most people want is a real console in a separate window. We

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Dimi Paun
On Tue, August 8, 2006 4:18 am, Alexandre Julliard wrote: I think that's a very small minority, what most people want is a real console in a separate window. We could certainly fall back to the curses backend when we aren't under X and can't create a user32 window. I used Wine for a while to

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Kuba Ober
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 04:18, Alexandre Julliard wrote: Eric Pouech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also changing the default to user is a bad idea... especially for users wanting to run a text only win32 app from a linux console without X started I think that's a very small minority On my

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Dimi Paun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used Wine for a while to run some command line tools (like some embedded assembler and linker). I certainly did not want a new console popup on each invocation. Not sure if this would be the case here, but it's certainly one of the most irritating Windows

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, I'd love it a lot if all the ncurses crap was avoided. The compilers output plain text on the standard output (whatever that is on windows). I'd hate to have some terminal crap inserted into that. I know that not too many people are using wine like

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Dan Kegel
On 8/8/06, Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 August 2006 04:18, Alexandre Julliard wrote: Eric Pouech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also changing the default to user is a bad idea... especially for users wanting to run a text only win32 app from a linux console without X

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Kuba Ober
I know that not too many people are using wine like that, but right now it works fine and I'd kindly ask for it to keep working, rather than get broken. Nobody is suggesting to change the behavior for apps that don't use wineconsole. The only suggested change is to default to X instead of

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-08 Thread Kuba Ober
If anyone needs me to put money where my mouth is, I offer $100 via PayPal if someone in charge wants financial coercion to avoid putting in the X/graphical/ncurses crap for console applications. I'm dead serious. I'll see your bet, and raise you $150. Wow, so you're saying that you add

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-07 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Ekkehard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This small patch provides command line option output, a --help option and a default user backend (--backend=user is default) to wineconsole. Your mailer wrapped the patch, please resend it. Also please send separate changes as separate patches,

Re: wineconsole: command line option output / default user backend

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Pouech
Alexandre Julliard wrote: Ekkehard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This small patch provides command line option output, a --help option and a default user backend (--backend=user is default) to wineconsole. Your mailer wrapped the patch, please resend it. Also please send