Wine 1.0 status: rc2 in 12 days, 34 bugs left

[Dan Kegel]

Hell is starting to freeze over.

A clickable version of the following info is at
 http://kegel.com/wine/countdown.html

Wine is now in a code freeze in preparation for the 1.0 release.

According to http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan, wine-1.0.0-rc2
will be due out Friday, May 23rd, 2008. It will be something like be
the next to last release candidate for 1.0.

During the code freeze, patches that

    * are simple
    * come with a conformance test
    * fix a regression
    * are low risk

are more likely to get in than other patches. (Heck, that's always
true, but it's even truer during a freeze.) We will actively
discourage patches that might endanger a June 1.0 release.

Bug Status

There are 34 open 1.0 bugs as of 10 May.  Most of these will simply be
rolled over to be fixed for a later release; we only have time to fix
a few, and much as we'd like to fix the rest, most are not
showstoppers.

Changes since last week (with category and votes):

New (!):
13071         quartz  0       Flashplayer crashes in a quartz bug
13115         advapi  0       .net 1.1 installer fails in ControlService()

Fixed:
8125    -unknown        0       Marratech 6.1 crashes on start
8783    ntdll   14      USB serial ports do not work
9178    -unknown        8       "hello world" dos program hangs
9356    ntdll   11      Serial communication not working since wine-0.9.33
11420   advapi32        0       service control manager API problem:
name of named objects might differ (client vs. service process)

Invalid:
12914   tools   1       wineprefixcreate overrides custom entries in
Explorer\\Shell Folders


Deferred:
2368    winex11.        7       Wine loses its X-Window when switching
to another virt. desktop in Fvwm
4523    user32  5       Can't copy from Firefox 1.5 and paste into
OpenOffice 2 under Wine
5061    -unknown        6       Copying from Windows Firefox in Wine
and pasting to Linux OpenOffice pastes metadata as data
6604    tools   3       Ship icons for the wine-tools that can be used
in .desktop files
7372    winex11.        14      can't copy and paste between gnome
apps eg openoffice or gimp and wine apps such as dreamweaver or adobe
photoshop
7571    gdi32   1       Accented character glyphs are mixed up with
TrueType fonts (affects e.g. Lotus Notes R5)
9942    ole     3       Powerpoint Viewer 2007 crashes opening .pptx files


Here's the full list of current bugs:

13115         advapi  0       .net 1.1 installer fails in ControlService()
2493        comctl32    2           Multi-select listview: Shift-arrow
up only selects top two items
11509       crypt32     0           Wordviewer 2003 is unable to open
documents encrypted with AES
5535        directx-    20          Planescape:Torment doesn't work
11584       directx-    2           Multiple games crash with stack
overflow error
3270        gdi32       16          Problem with minimized top-level windows
6519        gdi32       7           Wine blacks out rotated font bitmap
9771        gdi32       45          Steam Friends doesn't work (fails
to render correctly or refresh)
12730       gdi32       1           gdi32: some tests fail when X is
run in 16 bit mode, but not 32 bit
5024        kernel32    5           Thief: Deadly Shadows crashes:page
fault on read access to 0x0000040c
10147       msi         2           Word Viewer 2003 - Tab behavior
differs from Windows
12263       opengl      3           Sketchup Cannot initialize OpenGL
- ChoosePixelFormat fails
5926        programs    1           Wine does not provide an
implementation of winhlp32.exe
10288       programs    0           wine_gecko download hangs sometimes
13071       quartz      0           Flashplayer crashes in a quartz bug
5163        setupapi    14          Office XP 2002 crashes on installation
6095        shdocvw     16          MOTD in counter-strike 1.6 and
counter-strike source does not render
8898        shdocvw     1           Run Time Error "445": Object
doesn't support this action in Europa Knowledgebase
8439        shell32     10          Visual Studio .NET (7) install fails
11742       shlwapi     9           Small .net 1.1 app (FastMD5 1.3)
fails to start up
12074       testcase    3           The conformance tests fail on Windows
5402        -unknown    0           Trying to run PhotoStitch 3.1
5844        -unknown    16          tray minimize
5948        -unknown    2           Star Trek: Armada does not install
7404        -unknown    3           ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE) should not
generate a WM_PAINT message
9916        -unknown    6           "make test" usually fails
11281       -unknown    5           CJK input many issues
12097       -unknown    3           Wine 1.0 should not ship
out-of-sync resource translations
12246       -unknown    2           "make test" gives different
results with and without warn+heap
664         user32      8           The help menu functionality inside
programs is broken (messaging problem)
3023        user32      6           Orcad - "Place Part" never tries
to put down a part
124         wineserv    2           Review of Wine Server Protocol
9787        winsock     63          Warcraft3 Battle.net Doesn't work
(Needs AcceptEx)
12005       wintab32    2           Regression in pressure sensitivity
with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7