Re: [ros-general] Final WS2.2 Binary Release

[Andrew Flynn]

Please forgive my ignorance, but- Is it possible to be a tester, without 
any real programming knowledge.


Andrew.

Alex Ionescu wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>  After more reports from some users, I have implemented 6 new functions 
>  which were in use by many popular programs. Although much of the DLL 
>  is still unimplemented, the remaining calls are mostly for highly 
>  advanced behaviour which would be seen in either spyware of winsock 
>  firewalls, or for deprecated 16-bit support or highly unusual APIs. 
>  Since those aren't a priority right now and I haven't been able to 
>  find any application using them right now, I've chosen this version to 
>  be the "code freeze" version, which will be committed later. With the 
>  new functions (thanks to Jirka and David for finding the apps), Opera 
>  now works, as well as SmartFTP and probably a lot more applications. 
>  Here is the updated compatibility list that I've made:
>
>  Firefox, Opera, Filezilla, Thunderbird, IE 6, OE 6, Azureus, Microsoft 
>  Terminal Services Client, Skype, Google Talk, World of Warcraft, MIRC, 
>  XChat, MSN Messenger, SmartFTP.
>
>  This list is satisfactory to me, as it includes almost all the biggest 
>  network applications out there. I am now looking for any final 
>  showstoppers before focusing on mswsock.dll, so I've posted this mail 
>  on the General Mailing List as well, hoping to get more testers.
>
>  Thanks for testing!
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
>
>  PS. You may notice that the binary is larger then the Microsoft DLL, 
>  even though it is less functional. This is because it is a debug 
>  version, compiled without optimizations.
>
>  Revision: 30
>  Author:
>  Date: 12:30:29 AM, November 1, 2005
>  Message:
>  - Add UNIMPLEMENTED wherever it was missing.
>
>  Revision: 29
>  Author:
>  Date: 12:27:26 AM, November 1, 2005
>  Message:
>  - Implement WSANtohl, WSANtohs, WSAHtonl, WSAHtons. Opera now works.
>  - Fix some GetNameInfoW to return correct failure.
>
>  Revision: 28
>  Author:
>  Date: 4:25:38 PM, October 30, 2005
>  Message:
>  - Implement WSAStringToAddressA/W. This makes SmartFTP work with IP 
>  lookups, but hostname lookup still fail due to bugs in the application 
>  itself.
>
>  Alex Ionescu wrote:
>
> >   Hi,
> >
> >  It turns out there was another big bug that I released the binary 
> >  with, related to a recent untested RAS Auto-dial feature, which made 
> >  the DLL crash almost instantly in most programs.
> >
> >  I've fixed the build and this time did some extensive testing to 
> >  avoid having another bad release. I've tested, with success, IE6, 
> >  Filezilla, Firefox, Thundebird, Outlook Express, MIRC. As well, I'm 
> >  happy to report that MSN Messenger 7.5 and Azureus also work fine on 
> >  my system, so add those 2 apps to known working.
> >
> >  I'm still interested in Opera, other P2P clients, Chat clients, IRC 
> >  clients and Mozilla itself.
> >
> >  Thanks again!
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  Alex Ionescu
> >
> >  Changelog:
> >
> >  Revision: 27 
>
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