On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 20:09 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > gnivler wrote: > > Looks like I need to sign-up for Bugzilla so I can be a more useful and maybe contribute with reports etc, and once I have my feet more firmly planted maybe I can help with QA, sorting reports and checking the AppDB for info etc as I saw described in a document I found somewhere around here. It didn't occur to me that using a native dll illustrates something that devs are interested in fixing in the builtin libs, I feel/felt kind of like I'm whining about awesome free software. > > > > > Yes, the developers are very interested in building and fixing Wine's > built-in dll functionality to mimic, as close as legally possible, > native .dll functionality. > > You are not whining, but are pointing out shortcomings of Wine's > built-in .dll functionality. And software never gets better unless > someone does something about it. Filing as complete as possible bug > reports is a step in that direction. > > Keep on looking at problems with Wine. We can use all the help we can get. > > James McKenzie > > I've got a game which is calling unimplemented function(s) in d3dx9_36.dll, and I found some comments on existing bugs, apparently from devs stating that it's known to be incomplete and to use a native dll to workaround. My question is, should I be reporting stuff like this, or do the devs already have a list of functions and know? I checked the known-issues also and didn't see it explicitly stated there. Figured I should just check here :) ps. my mail client is trying to reply to your personal address instead of wine-users, changing the field.
