Wine Traffic #30 For 14 Feb 2000
Table Of Contents
Introduction
This is the 30th release of the Wine's kernel cousin
publication. It's main goal is to distribute widely what's
going on around Wine (the Un*x windows emulator).
Mailing List Stats For This Week
We looked at 89 posts in 323K.
There were 34 different contributors.
20 posted more than once.
24 posted last week too.
The top posters of the week were:
- 7 posts in 21K by Andreas Mohr <amohr@student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de>
- 7 posts in 12K by Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.com>
- 7 posts in 104K by Eric Pouech <Eric.Pouech@wanadoo.fr>
- 6 posts in 29K by Philippe Moutarlier <philippe@kscable.com>
- 5 posts in 10K by Ove Kaaven <ovehk@ping.uio.no>
- Full Stats
1.
FormatMessage and message tables
Archive Link: "FormatMessage"
People:
Bertho Stultiens, , Dave Pickles, Uwe Bonnes
Dave Pickles asked for some support on the implementation of
FormatMessage, with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM option. This allows
error codes (for example) to be presented in a more human readable
fashion.
One issue raised was the way to create the message tables (there are
resources anyway, so can be added to any module). Bertho Stultiens
pointed out that they are not implemented at all. MS
has a separate message compiler and I did not want to implement that
yet.
However Uwe Bonnes (and Dave later with some code) proposed to store
(at least for the system message table - the one containing the
textual representation of system error codes - to use some arrays
(two indexes are used: message ID and language ID). However, all
agreed that providing a message table compiler would be a neat thing
to have.2.
Dialog and property sheets
Archive Link: "propsheet weirdness"
People:
Andreas Mohr,
Andreas Mohr, while toying with a code example from Petzold's Windows
Programming book, ran into some bad behavior in Wine.
After some investigations (from Corel's Serge Ivanov and Thuy NGuyen),
it turned out that the program had the same behavior under Windows...
Anyway, Andreas posted a patch to enhance EndDialog() behavior
regarding bad window handles.3.
Bad rumors and good news
Archive Link: "Applix FUDs Wine"
People:
Ian Schmidt, Ove Kaaven, Jutta Wrage, Gavriel State, , Jeremy White, News
Ian Schmidt reported two bad Wine quotes from the News:
The added layer of Wine code--an open source
implementation of Windows 95/Microsoft Windows NT application
programming interfaces--causes native Windows applications to run more
slowly and with less stability on Linux, says Richard Manly, director
of product marketing for Applix.
You can find a full article from
PC World ()
.
Later on, Linux Today posted also it appears Corel has
switched gears and will now ship PE binaries as their final product.
That's pretty discouraging for WineLib - could we get a post-mortem
from someone at Corel?
Applix, and some of its products, can see in Wine a competitor. So
spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) about it is an usual
marketing practice. However, that's rather a good thing that
commercial entities start being negative at Wine: it's a sign Wine is
getting better and better !!
Alex Korobka reminded with an old issue (#6) with a reference to
WinTach running on Wine that indicated that drawing
functions were more or less on par with Windows but window
manipulation was a lot slower.
Jeremy White from CodeWeaver put up a $2.500 CoSource (http://www.cosource.com/cgi-bin/cos.pl/wish/info/279)
request to run properly WinBench 99 under Wine: It
would be nice to have some real data to counter the FUD (or at least
some real data to indicate what work we have to do).
Corel's Gavriel State gave the last word Just watch
our tree - we're putting lots of guns on optimization
now. 8-)
, and regarding the future of WineLib (versus running
Windows code, aka PE loader):Purely a matter of timing
- several things we wanted to see weren't coming together in time, so
for the initial release we're using the PE loader. It really makes no
difference whatsoever from a performance perspective, it's purely a
user perception issue. It's doubtful that users of our suite will even
know they're running it under WINE unless they run a 'ps'...
Sharon And Joy
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