Happy new year everybody ! In your list, you forgot your big work on systray. Do you see in your crystal ball if/when it will be merged ?
thanks Max On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:57 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: > Happy new year everybody! > > Being the patch fetishist that I am, I couldn't help noticing that in > December 2004 we cleared 8mb of patches: that's by far the largest since > the current archives began in October 2000. > > The extra traffic came from a lot of places: > > - Huge improvements to the Application Database. > > - The number was also pushed higher by an MSI merge from CodeWeavers. > > - Some big janitorial patches went in from Michael Stefaniuc > > - Finally Rob and I were cranking out DCOM patches, and there are of > course lots more in the pipeline. > > Now time for some crystal ball gazing. Here are some interesting patches > we might be seeing in 2005: > > - Completion of the WM rewrite work. Alexandre seems to be making great > progress on this, which will let us fix many of the odd visual > corruption problems we've been plagued with for so long. It'll also > let us remerge Alexs winedesktop patch, giving us a real desktop window > that is used for all apps, at last. > > It should have many other benefits too: fixing the flickering in > the Half Life menus and allowing us to support the NETWM fullscreen > protocol. This should let us resolve many instances of the "my game > starts but I can't type" problem. > > - Lots more DCOM code. Huw Davies is hacking on getting widl to produce > a stdole32.tlb file, once that's in we can start really nailing > InstallShield to the wall. We will hopefully get this and the > thread-affinity patches in the next few months, which should mean > for the first time we can run InstallShield 6 installers perfectly, out > of the box. > > Support for newer InstallShields will come as time permits of course. > > - More MSI improvements! CodeWeavers are continuing to work on > this so it should develop nicely even though the iTunes installer > work has been completed. Office 2003 will also motivate this. It's > being used by at least one commercial app porting project as well. > > - Support for running Winelib apps directly, so we can get rid of the > .exe.so extensions/shell wrapper scripts, and produce "raw" ELF > binaries. They'll still need the wine loader app to be present of > course, but it should all be invisible and behind the scenes. Vincent > Beron and I have been working on this in the last week or so, and we > just need to finish it off and convince Alexandre the extra assembly > is worth it! :) > > Who knows what the new year will bring? More apps working out of the box, > that's for sure! Have fun! > > thanks -mike > > >