Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Jeremy White wrote: With COM, the other issue is that someone needs to look at the MS patents in this area. Mainsoft is telling people that they can't use Wine to port COM code, because Microsoft holds patents on some of the Vtable logic used in COM (and no, I don't have any more detail than

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-05-01 Thread Gavriel State
Dan Kegel wrote: Jeremy White wrote: With COM, the other issue is that someone needs to look at the MS patents in this area. Mainsoft is telling people that they can't use Wine to port COM code, because Microsoft holds patents on some of the Vtable logic used in COM (and no, I don't

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Jeremy White wrote: This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems to be pretty common across all InstallSheild v6

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Bond
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:47:01PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: http://freedce.sourceforge.net/ is an open source project to implement COM. It's been around quite some time, and started off from the same DCE sources that Microsoft based its stuff on. (See also http://linas.org/linux/corba.html )

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread juergen . schmied
As for doing the 10k+ lines of coding myself, I have experience in (de)marshalling and network coding, spent many years doing it, it's more a matter of available time and learning the com wire protocols, neither of which are currently available to me. Here's to hoping someone is already

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:47:01PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: Jeremy White wrote: This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Bond
From: Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For local marshalling we could use our own protocol and even our own way of ipc if we don't try to mix processes with native and wine com-dll's. It com server is only interested in the result ;-). And isn't the com marshalling

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Jeremy White
This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems to be pretty common across all InstallSheild v6 based installers I've

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Gavriel State wrote: Mike Bond wrote: This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems to

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-26 Thread Gavriel State
Mike Bond wrote: This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems to be pretty common across all InstallSheild v6 based

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-25 Thread Juergen Schmied
My question, is anyone currently working on implementing CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER in compobj.c:CoGetClassObject, or have plans to work on this in the near future? If not, I may go back to trying to figure out what is happening with the 'native' configuration. This will require a lot

Re: InstallShield and ole question...

2001-04-18 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:42:24AM -0400, Mike Bond wrote: Quick brief, I've been lurking for quite some time around WineHQ and the wine project, but don't really have time for putting a lot of devel into it. It seems wine is finally getting close enough to working for most things that I can