Fedora 12: What projects for F12?

[NightStrike]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:47:04AM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:25:35PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> >> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> >> > (2)? Use mingw-w64 project to build 32 bit w32api/runtime, since
>> >> > mingw-w64 seems to be more active.
>> >>
>> >> They're still missing some stuff though, e.g. the DDK headers.
>> >
>> > Does anything support DDK (eg. current MinGW 32 bit)?
>> >
>> > I don't really know much about this, but I do know that many people
>> > have asked if we can compile device drivers.  This would be very
>> > useful for virt, for example (to compile virtio drivers for Windows).
>> >
>> > Rich.
>>
>> We aren't missing directx-x stuff.  They just aren't in the trunk,
>> they're in the experimental area.  The reason for this is that they
>> were copied from Wine.  If you want directx, you can either get the
>> DDK and use it directly, or use what's from Wine, or use what we
>> copied from Wine.
>
> Can you explain what the different TLAs mean?  DDK, etc?
>
> As I say I don't know much about this stuff.

Well actually, Kai just pointed out to me that I misread the original
email.  I thought he was talking about the directx SDK, not the Driver
Development Kit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Kit).
Too many acronyms, too little sleep :)