Well I took the silence that this note triggered as a "no-one else has done
this, go ahead". So I went ahead and IBM Japan are quite happy for their
patches to be incorporated. I will therefore extract the type 4 fixes (see
list below), test each against the current build, adjust as necessary, test
against those apps I have, and submit them to the wine-patch list for
inclusion. Alternatively I can post them here first if that would be
preferable.
If I find any that are obviously clashing with any work that seems to be in
progress I will contact the authors of the work in progress directly.
Regards
David
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04:55 PM ---------------------------
David Goodenough
01-09-2000 02:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: IBM Home Page Builder patches
A while ago someone on this list noted that IBM had released a Linux
version of Home Page Builder which was really the Windows version with a
patched version of Wine. This was built against Wine 20000423.
The patches seem to fall into four main categories:-
1) Bits from Wine 20000526 which should already be in the current builds,
2) Changes to make their Wine separate from any other on the machine and a
few very HPB specific changes that would not really be desirable in the
standard builds,
3) Changes to disable some functionality (presumably that they were having
some trouble with),
4) New function and fixes to existing function.
The first two obviously do not need any further attention. The third is
perhaps a pointer to places were some further work is needed, but the
fourth is really the one I am interested in here.
Has anyone been in contact with the authors (somewhere in Japan by the look
of it), or IBM, about merging these fixes into the current builds? If not,
are there any objections to my doing so?
A few of the fixes conflict with other work that has been done since 0526,
but most is standalone as far as I can see. The conflicts will need to be
resolved with those who have made the changes.
