[Wine] Call for volunteers

[Austin English]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM, jake.smith<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Austin - another quick question:
>
> I've tested a few bugs using the latest compiled fresh from git (wine-1.1.23-273-gc293285) but then began wondering if I should be using the latest beta instead - 1.1.23?

Git is better.

> I'm also confused if I'm doing something wrong because I tried to install directx 9.0c to test dxdiag and after extracting I ran wine dxsetup.exe.  That failed with these errors and saying "finished" without doing anything.
> fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x8ae6f0) using GetSystemInfo()
> fixme:mscoree:GetCORVersion (0x8ae2e8, 600, 0x8ae2d4): semi-stub!

Directx is a mess...it's better to use winetricks to install it, but
even it's buggy (I'm working on that, but unfortunately, I don't game
much, so hard to fix :-p).\

> But if I right click on dxsetup.exe and choose "open with wine windows program loader" it starts to install properly.  Am I doing something wrong?  This is under Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit server with wine-1.1.23-273-gc293285.  I had 1.1.23 installed before but I moved .wine to .wine-bak and uninstalled wine with apt before getting the latest with git and compile/make/make install and beginning to verify bugs.  After each test I rm -fr .wine
> Any dll overrides I did when I had wine installed via apt before would have moved with .wine-bak... correct?

Right. That's why it's best to install all apps separately, makes
testing easy. I use ~/.wine for testing stuff (developers reinstall a
lot...), but ~/.wine-morrowind for morrowind, ~/.wine-dvdshrink for
DVD Shrink, etc. Much easier to deal with.

> Sorry if this is a little off topic for this thread but I want to make sure that I'm not testing improperly and sending developers in the wrong direction!

No problem. There are no stupid questions...though asking easy
questions on bugzilla is close ;-).

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-Austin