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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for the tip, Alan!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">...John Alway</div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, December 16, 2019, 06:40:17 PM CST, Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1234@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On 2019-12-16 23:03-0000 Thales wrote:<div class="yqt6905702635" id="yqtfd19180"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Hello,<br clear="none">> What are some of the most important bugs that need fixing? I would like to take a crack at one or more. I've been looking at Bugzilla and there's quite a bit there to sift through.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks for any feedback!<br clear="none">> ...John Alway</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hi John:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My advice is work on a Wine bug that is blocking something of<br clear="none">interest to you since that interest will provide important focus and<br clear="none">motivation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For example, if you are interested in free software distributions for<br clear="none">Windows like Cygwin or MSYS2, you might want to work on one or more<br clear="none">bugs that are blocking those from working on Wine **after** reading a<br clear="none">summary of the current situation at<br clear="none"><<a shape="rect" href="https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/682" target="_blank">https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/682</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none">(particularly the remarks starting at<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"<corinna> the old method up to XP/2K3 is not available anymore"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Note, I prefer to stick to my own free software development rather<br clear="none">than work on Wine, but I do follow the Cygwin and MSYS2 situation<br clear="none">because as a Linux user I would like to test my free software using<br clear="none">the free software libraries in those distributions for the Windows<br clear="none">platform without paying a Microsoft tax. And there are others with<br clear="none">similar interests as well such as "fracting" (Qian Hong) who got MSYS2<br clear="none">to work reasonably well under Wine-staging before the post-XP change<br clear="none">to MSYS2 that he refers to in that discussion. However, there is<br clear="none">obviously a huge range of software available on Windows besides the<br clear="none">software (e.g., the installers) supporting those two software<br clear="none">distributions so if your interest is in something else (e.g., some<br clear="none">game) you should follow your interest rather than mine!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Alan<br clear="none">__________________________<br clear="none">Alan W. Irwin<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state<br clear="none">implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time<br clear="none">Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting<br clear="none">software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project<br clear="none">(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);<br clear="none">and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).<br clear="none">__________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Linux-powered Science<div class="yqt6905702635" id="yqtfd12800"><br clear="none">__________________________<br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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