WineHQ: Assorted fixes
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Fri Feb 6 09:33:44 CST 2004
Changelog:
* wwn/wn20020710_128.xml
wwn/wn20030516_170.xml
wwn/wn20040123_206.xml
wwn/wn20040130_207.xml
wwn/wn20040203_208.xml
Assorted fixes, mostly spelling.
--
Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
-- Eric Jong
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Index: wwn/wn20020710_128.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20020710_128.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 wn20020710_128.xml
--- wwn/wn20020710_128.xml 16 Dec 2003 17:09:27 -0000 1.4
+++ wwn/wn20020710_128.xml 6 Feb 2004 12:47:00 -0000
@@ -333,9 +333,9 @@
</p><quote who="Clemens Eisserer"><p>
I'm one of two web-masters of www.linux-wine.de . Many people in our
forum asked for a graphical frontend to the wine.config.
-And because google didnt find anything, I've just wrote a prototype. Its
+And because google didn't find anything, I've just written a prototype. It's
written in Java, is compiled to a native-Linux program via gcj and uses
-java-gtk as toolkit. It is nearyl as fast as a C++ program, but coding
+java-gtk as toolkit. It is nearly as fast as a C++ program, but coding
is much faster und easier. And (for all GNU-fanatics) its fully
GPL-compatible....
</p><p>
Index: wwn/wn20030516_170.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20030516_170.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 wn20030516_170.xml
--- wwn/wn20030516_170.xml 16 Dec 2003 17:09:27 -0000 1.8
+++ wwn/wn20030516_170.xml 6 Feb 2004 12:47:25 -0000
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
including being able to change weapons, and announced,
<quote who="Jason Edmeades">
Aside from no movies and no sound May Payne looks quite good. I also
- checked my changes didnt break warcraft3 either, so we now at least have
+ checked my changes didn't break warcraft3 either, so we now at least have
2 games which are playable.
PS: Don't expect much more from me for a while now - Busy playing games...
</quote>
Index: wwn/wn20040123_206.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20040123_206.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 wn20040123_206.xml
--- wwn/wn20040123_206.xml 26 Jan 2004 22:57:41 -0000 1.3
+++ wwn/wn20040123_206.xml 30 Jan 2004 20:38:13 -0000
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@
<quote who="Mike McCormack"><p>
This is a stub implemenation of the undocumented IActiveSetup from
Internet Explorer's INSENG.DLL. I'm not sure that any other software
-except for Internet Explorer uses INSENG, however incase anybody is ever
+except for Internet Explorer uses INSENG, however in case anybody is ever
interested in it, I'm posting it here.
</p><p>
To build this dll in wine place the following 3 files in dlls/inseng,
Index: wwn/wn20040130_207.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20040130_207.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 wn20040130_207.xml
--- wwn/wn20040130_207.xml 30 Jan 2004 02:21:56 -0000 1.2
+++ wwn/wn20040130_207.xml 30 Jan 2004 20:33:08 -0000
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
<topic>WineConf 2004</topic>
<p>In case you hadn't heard, WineConf 2004 is this weekend in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Over thirty developers are expected to attend. Almost everyone will be arriving
-tomorrow, if they're not there already. Part of the reason this weeks' WWN
+tomorrow, if they're not there already. Part of the reason this week's WWN
is so small is because people are en route. The other reason is I'm rushing
out the door myself. Next week there will definitely be
some form of update posted in the WWN. I'll probably wait a few days to allow
@@ -141,14 +141,14 @@
<ul><tt>
mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://wine.codeweavers.com/wineconf-test.sdp</tt></ul></p><p>
-You can also use Quicktime, and the Player from Quicktime 6.3 should run
+You can also use QuickTime, and the Player from QuickTime 6.3 should run
under Wine. I haven't had time to nail down a version of
Wine that runs it reliably; I had one working a few weeks
ago, but now our CVS tip doesn't work for beans. Hopefully
I'll get enough time to push one out.
</p><p>
If someone else wants to take a poke, the key is to snag
-Quicktime 6.3 (it's a bit hard to find, but is out there),
+QuickTime 6.3 (it's a bit hard to find, but is out there),
and make sure you use a Wine that is recent enough that it
has the REUSEADDR badness in socket.c reverted.
</p></quote>
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@
<li> The number of cvs commits in October '98 was corrected to 258 commits.</li>
</ul></p></quote>
-<p>A quick look a clean source directory shows everything to be about 53MB
-right now in including the generated source Rein mentions. Another
+<p>A quick look at a clean source directory shows everything to be about 53MB
+right now, including the generated source Rein mentions. Another
interesting stat to look are the increases in mailing list messages. Over
the same period where the amount of source code has grown quicker than the
5 year trend we've seen a corresponding increase in posts to both wine-patches
Index: wwn/wn20040203_208.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20040203_208.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 wn20040203_208.xml
--- wwn/wn20040203_208.xml 4 Feb 2004 21:20:55 -0000 1.2
+++ wwn/wn20040203_208.xml 6 Feb 2004 15:10:07 -0000
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
Alexandre identified installation and configuration as areas needing
some attention, "We have all the tools, we're just not using them."
-In particular, we now have wineboot, winecfg, regedit, and DLL's
+In particular, we now have wineboot, winecfg, regedit, and DLLs
that self-register. The website is vastly improved compared to
two years ago. Documentation is in decent shape but needs some
work. One difficult problem is that the people who can write the
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
approximately 200,000 lines of code written. In the five years
since then we've seen 1,000,000 more appear and since the last
Wineconf we've seen the code size double. Clearly the license
-change to LGPL, a hot topic in 2002, hasn't proven to be hindrance.
+change to LGPL, a hot topic in 2002, hasn't proven to be a hindrance.
</p><p>
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
<li>Easy installation, including finishing winecfg</li>
<li>Move the configuration into the registry</li>
<li>Handle the initial registry setup</li>
- <li>Better command-line handline</li>
+ <li>Better command-line handling</li>
<li>Winelib improvements, including using winegcc to build Wine</li>
<li>Better OLE/COM infrastructure</li>
</ul></p><p>
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
short-term as is the integration of a small Wine history page. Adding
in an automatic test framework also seems to be on track thanks to the
work of Ferenc Wagner. Documentation, overall, isn't in that bad of
-shape and no one complained at all about the tools used for creating
+a shape and no one complained at all about the tools used for creating
documentation. Dimi hoped someone could adapt the Winelib Guide to
include information about using winegcc. In the worst shape is the
Wine Developer's Guide. Currently it's lacking information on widl and
@@ -400,12 +400,12 @@
</p><p>...</p><p>
-Day one ended wrapped up about 4:30. Jeremy White invited everyone to
+Day one ended wrapped up at about 4:30. Jeremy White invited everyone to
dinner at the Mall of America. In the mean time Michael Stefaniuc,
Dimi Paun, Marcus Meissner, Shachar Shemesh, and I decided to visit
the Ice Palace - a big event in Saint Paul. Unbeknownst to us, this
attraction seemed to draw the entire population of Minnesota.
-Given the -20 degree F (about -20 C). Needless to say, we only managed to see
+Given the -20 degree F (about -29 C). Needless to say, we only managed to see
the Ice Palace from outside. Dinner and drinks kept us out till about
midnight again.
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@
MinGW, winegcc, and winemaker appear to be an excellent combination.
Dimi, somewhat joking, said now with this porting system "we make
-half the problem someone elses problem."
-The MinGW resource compiler, windres, is now commandline compatible
+half the problem someone else's problem."
+The MinGW resource compiler, windres, is now command-line compatible
with Wine's wrc. After moving to Linux, winemaker can automate most
of the code reformatting. Then Winegcc wraps the regular gcc on Linux
with the necessary <s>arcane magic</s> requirements to link with Wine.
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@
This led into a presentation by Boaz Harrosh of the work he did recently
to port a large application to Linux using Winelib. He ran into
several obstacles and had a lot of suggestions for making the process
-better. He really liked winemaker but felt it needed to easily
+better. He really liked winemaker but felt it needed to be easily
extensible to support more automated features. The process needed
to first accomplish some simple things such as:
<ul>
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@
By far the biggest problem is getting copy protected games to work. A big
discussion about it ensued. Steven Edwards agreed to contact various folks
to iron out the issues. Technically it seems possible but there were
-differing opinions of whether we should support the secdrv.sys driver using
+differing opinions on whether we should support the secdrv.sys driver using
something like a Captive NTFS implementation or if there's another means
to get it working.
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