[Savannah-register-public] [task #9253] Submission of WineD3D

[Robert Millan]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?9253>

                 Summary: Submission of WineD3D
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: robertmh
            Submitted on: Mon Mar 30 00:01:34 2009
         Should Start On: Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 2009
   Should be Finished on: Thu Apr  9 00:00:00 2009
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10194> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10194>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *WineD3D*
* System Name:  *wined3d*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (This project can
potentially work with ReactOS, but is primarily target at a non-free OS
(Microsoft Windows).

However, it should be noted that its goal is to replace a widespread non-free
library (Direct3D), and eventually even implement D3D10, thereby reducing the
incentive for users to upgrade to Vista (D3D10 is a Vista-only feature).
)

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==== Description: ====
WineD3D is the component of Wine that implements a replacement for Microsoft
Direct3D. WineD3D works as a wrapper for Direct3D calls, and relies on OpenGL
for the actual rendering job.

Although primarily designed for use in Wine, WineD3D can also be used on
native Windows. This has a number of advantages over using Microsoft
Direct3D:

    * You're free to use it for any purpose, study what it does, modify it to
suit your needs, or share it with your friends.
    * It can implement versions of Direct3D for Windows versions that
Microsoft doesn't want to support (e.g. d3d10 on XP).
    * Since it relies on OpenGL, it can provide Direct3D without need for
specific D3D drivers (notably, on VMs like VirtualBox or QEMU). 

The purpose of this project is to provide a build system and NSIS-based
installer, and use it to produce Windows builds for each Wine release.



==== Other Software Required: ====
Wine, LGPLv2, http://www.winehq.org/
Mingw32, weak copyleft, http://www.mingw.org/



==== Tarball URL: ====
http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/wined3d.tar.gz






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