World Wine News

Hi Folks,

It's now close enough to November that you can't blow this email off <grin>.

We've got all the info here: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineConf2009

Our challenge this year is that we're managing the booking, so we need a firm head count ahead of time.

Again, if money is an issue, and you haven't already, please contact me privately.

So if you're thinking of coming, email Hans.

Now.

Please.

Failure to do so may result in your sleeping on the streets of Enschede *grin*.

Cheers,

Jeremy

After the recent success with the .net 3.0 installer, I decided to try .net 3.5:

$ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/0/3/703455ee-a747-4cc8-bd3e-98a615c3aedb/dotNetFx35setup.exe

$ sha1sum dotNetFx35setup.exe b0ca05c12ebb9a3610206bad7f219e02b7873cbd  dotNetFx35setup.exe
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ sh winetricks dotnet20
$ wine dotNetFx35setup.exe

And surprise, although there was a crash dialog about printfilterpipelinesvc, the installer reported that it finished ok!

I have no idea if the installed runtime actually works, and there are a ton of log messages after installation finishes. (Presumably the .net optimization service?) But it's nice to have gotten this far.

- Dan

Hi,

I wanted to send a mail to the list and basically state what the status of all this is and what my plans are for the future.

For those unfamiliar with what i was doing, I was trying to enable using gstreamer elements as directshow filter to expand the quartz functionality available. At the start of the program I was not very familiar with quartz so it took a fair amount of learning to get up to speed with it.

The basic ability to use a gstreamer element is mostly there. More work is needed to finish up a few aspects of it though. The source commited to my github repo does expose one working element if you have the gstreamer mp3 plugin installed. A little bit more work is needed to map more formats so that more elements can be exposed. I had hoped to do this before the program deadline but it just ended up not being possible. But i plan to keep working on this. I'd like to see it commited if possible.

My plans are essentially the following:

• expand the format mapping so most audio elements (ones that operate on one input and one output) can be exposed
• add to the quartz filter registry
• clean up anything I can find (i am sure there is a leak or two, etc)
• finish build setup - configure option and library finding issue (seems to pickup 64bit version on 64bit system...which won't work...)
• start patch review

More long term I want to start more general quartz work. Implementing some of the currently unimplemented features such as dynamic pin reconnection would help. I want to do this as well as start cleaning up a few areas I found while trying to find what was happening. I also want to continue working on this to allow more elements, specifically the demuxers from gstreamer which should be able to the take the place of avisplitter and mpegsplitter but have more features.

I didn't get as far as i had wanted to due to how much I had to learn about directshow and time was constantly a issue. Nothing really uses the new filter currently expect my little test mp3 player, which is also available in the github repo (just search for tdaven, both the wine and the test programs are in my personal repo). It seems the quartz dsound element sometimes (i've had it often) does not mix well when using alsa as the audio driver over pulseaudio. If it sounds extremely slow this is the cause. I've not tracked down exactly what is going on in this case, but using raw alsa or something else has never demonstrated the issue. Took me a good while to find this was the cause though.

If there are any questions I'd be glad to answer whatever.

Cheers,

Trevor Davenport

Appinstall is a testing framework using AutoHotKey to perform 'real world' gui testing. Essentially, it allows for users to write scripts in AutoHotKey (a really easy language), to test installing their favorite application, as well as running it and performing various actions. By making the test on windows, we can ensure the behavior matches native. By testing it on Wine, it can find very subtle bugs, and also, serve as a great regression test.

Appinstall itself consists of a shell script that handles creating WINEPREFIXes, running winetricks (if needed for an application), caching downloads, parsing the results, and scp'ing them to a webserver. The bulk of the program is in autohotkey scripts, which tests various applications, from 7-zip to Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Currently, it tests has 39 tests, though, that's a bit deceptive, since some of those tests builtin wine applications. In actuality, there are 35 'real' applications tested, of various types. Most do a silent install, when possible. Some, such as Notepad++ and Firefox have a few more tests built in, others simply test that the program runs. The tests are run daily, on my machine, to monitor for regressions and fixed bugs. It takes about an hour or so to go through all the tests, with the downloads cached. If sha1sum's are disabled, that time can go down considerably, especially for large (many files) tests, e.g., Gimp, Photoshop, Python.

The future of appinstall really depends on if users contribute :-). If anything, those 35 applications will be tested daily. If users would like to contribute, by writing a test for their favorite downloadable application, it would be helpful. There's a guide here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Appinstall_Testing. Personally, my time recently has been spoken for, so I haven't had as much time to work on it. If I get more free time, or a sponsor ;-), that may change. There's tons of room for improvement...there are a lot of small testcase programs on bugzilla that could be tested, and thousands of downloadable applications on windows to test. Eventually, I'd like to test the Microsoft Office installers (optionally, if the cd is in the drive), various language conformance tests (python/perl/etc., assuming they pass on Windows), and once Dan's crossbuild scripts start to work better on Wine, test some of those.

-Austin