WINE 1.1.8 Released, Improved Memory Management

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WINE 1.1.8 Released, Improved Memory Management

The release of WINE 1.1.7 two weeks ago marked their initial work on implementing Direct3D 10 support, but still in a very early form. WINE 1.1.8 has now been released and while doesn't contain anything quite as exciting, there are a few interesting points. WINE 1.1.8 features substantial parts of inetcomm being implemented to provide Microsoft Outlook support, improved crypt32 support, memory management improvements, and theming support for buttons...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjgzOA

[Kano]

Not to forget that now ASPI works again. This stopped working with 1.1.7.

[3vi1]

The Wine guys are doing a phenomenal job tackling this very tough problem.

[deanjo]

Not to forget that now ASPI works again. This stopped working with 1.1.7.


WooHoo AEC should start working again.

[Kano]

Well I helped finding that bug because nobody knew that there was one. It is not that hard to do, I needed to compile about 10 times wine (a bit more to test the patch then) using the git bisect way. I used ccache and added -j2 (dual) or -j4 (quad) to the make commands improve compile speed.

http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=0ff2c06c1d26bf3b6f717140d5753ba3c82295 a8

With the result Thunderbird fixed it:

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=fff24b061c7c7090c097408636a6941545ccf7 6e

As before you just complain that something does not work anymore which worked before just help finding the patch.

[deanjo]

Well I helped finding that bug because nobody knew that there was one. It is not that hard to do, I needed to compile about 10 times wine (a bit more to test the patch then) using the git bisect way. I used ccache and added -j2 (dual) or -j4 (quad) to the make commands improve compile speed.

http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=0ff2c06c1d26bf3b6f717140d5753ba3c82295 a8

With the result Thunderbird fixed it:

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=fff24b061c7c7090c097408636a6941545ccf7 6e

As before you just complain that something does not work anymore which worked before just help finding the patch.


I'm not complaining, just celebrating.

[Kano]

I meant complaining not about that specific issue, just in general it should be not too hard to find commits which introduced a regression with a new version using the described way in the wiki. That speeds up the time to get a fix.