Alexandre Julliard wrote: > "Dmitry Timoshkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "John Klehm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The problem is that it is a mingw issue but they don't want any >>> patches from wines win32 api in their mingw w32api. They believe that >>> looking at the actual ms header files taints our headers legally >>> speaking. Stefan, hans, and PaulM maintain a rather large set of >>> patches against w32api. [1] >>> >>> So its a constant catchup game from when wines headers get new >>> additions until someone sends paulm a patch updating the mingw w32api. >> Then perhaps we (Alexandre) should reconsider the stance about using >> Wine headers and import libraries in preference to mingw ones. > > Agreed, the idea of using w32api is that we want to help improve mingw > by finding problems in their headers and libraries, but if they are not > going to accept our patches anyway, then there's clearly no point in > continuing to make our life harder by using their stuff. >
And can't we just start creating the winetest executable at winehq somewhere? -- Cheers, Paul.