[ros-dev] more sharing with Wine?

[Alex Ionescu]

Gunnar Dalsnes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm tired of fixing bugs in code ported from wine <x> years ago. In 
> most cases the bugs has already been fixed in the wine code we ripped 
> from, but the ros variant is forked so much its impossible to inc. 
> those fixes into ros, so the only choice is to rip the whole wine 
> source over again, loosing any possible fixes/improvements we had made 
> to the ros variant vs. the wine variant.
>
> Take for example the file lib\kernel32\misc\profile.c. This file is 
> 99.9% unchanged from wine, and only includes and some prototypes 
> needed changes. I want to move files like this into wine subdirs. like 
> lib\kernel32\misc\wine\profile.c and generate an initial diff 
> lib\kernel32\misc\wine\profile.diff with changes made to make it run 
> on ros using the wine porting headers. It does not mean that this diff 
> will contain ERR changed to DPRINT etc. Only the bare changes to make 
> it compile. Moving files into wine dirs in off course not necesary, 
> but it makes it clear that this file(s) are shared thus there are 
> rules to follow when changing them.
>
> I have made scripts that updates our profile.c, using the profile.diff 
> and any updated profile.c from wine, and i have made a script for 
> generating patches that we send to wine. It all seems to work fine. 
> HELP: where does the winehq2ros.patch files used in comctl32 etc. fit 
> into this?
>
> The only problem is wines strange unicode strings, their FIXME, ERR 
> etc. and indentation. I think its worth it if we can share more, but 
> dunno if the majority agrees.
>
> From what i can see, much of kernel32 and ntdll can be shared this 
> way, and probably much stuff in user32/gdi32 also.
>
> Regards
> Gunnar

Personally, what bugs me is that if Wine fixes something, it's our 
responsability to merge it and cope with it. If we fix something, it's 
still our responsability. This latter statement bugs me. Of course it's 
up to us to implement Wine's changes, but why should we be the ones that 
also send our pathces back to wine, and have them all formatted back 
into Wine mode. It seems unfair to me that they don't submit their bug 
fixes to us, and it's up to us to sync and make them proper, while it's 
ALSO up to us to wineize our patches and send them to Wine.

Anyways, whatever tool/script makes importing Wine's code into ROS and 
making it look nice is 100% OK with me.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu