How are we doing?

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Tue May 30 09:45:48 CDT 2006


"Mike Hearn" <mike at plan99.net> wrote:

> Got a reply from somebody who would rather remain anonymous:
> 
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> 
> This may be just me, but the learning curve is probably much more
> steep for a "general purpose" hacker than for a particular dll. I have
> some apps I'd like to get working, but I find that the underlying
> problems tend to take a long time to find, and when I do find them
> they tend to fall into one of these categories:
> -relatively simple to hack around, but difficult to really fix
> -involves implementing or fixing something that's way beyond my skills
> -it's unclear how to properly fix the problem
> 
> None of those result in a patch. Usually they only will only result in
> a bug report or (if it's something the developers are aware of)
> nothing at all. On the other hand, I'm not really interested in
> working on a particular dll; I just want my apps to run correctly on
> wine with as little kludging around things as possible.
> 
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> 
> ... which is certainly true, it has a steep learning curve. But I think we
> need more people doing such things :/

I can't believe that writing a good test case showing the bug and adding
it to the Wine test harness is such hard thing to do for a good Windows
developer who already knows what he expects from a particular Win32 API.
Once the test is in the Wine tree that becomes *much* easier to pinpoint
the bug and decide what is the real fix for it.

-- 
Dmitry.



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