The light at the end of the WDF 1.7 tunnel

I know people want to know about this, but firm dates still prove elusive.  My best guess is today or tomorrow at this point.

Basically we're trying to put an interim package up that satisfies everyone and isn't going to cause us foreseeable problems in the future.  Eliyas keeps tweaking this MSI to satisfy one concern or another raised by members of the Dev, PM and QA teams, and once it's done, it will go to Microsoft Connect and you'll have your coinstallers.  Sometime after that we'll have an updated WDK with everything tied together nicely again.  As I understand it, the links for it on MSDN will work eventually, but I have no idea when.

As far as the real testing- all done, all good.  All the legal and licensing stuff, good.  Just have to make an MSI with everything in it that doesn't look like it was slapped together at the last minute-  even though it sort of is.

Now playing: Yoko Kanno [Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, V2]: Psychedelic Soul

Some follow up

Kumar fixed the UMDF coinstaller build problem (which you'll never see) in fairly short order, and then went on vacation himself.  So of course, more build problems turned up- but until we get that MSI out, not likely I'll get any traction.  This time the x64 update package for WinXP and Win2K3 is missing some pieces- blocks me, but again, I doubt this is a problem that affects anybody but my team [call this an attempt to give you an idea what it can be like sometimes "on the inside", because it's easy to get the idea everything is endlessly smooth and we spend all our time pondering the whichness of the why].

Now Playing: Grateful Dead [Live / Dead] St Stephen [always a welcome album]

So that's what they look like!

Yesterday I gave a brief presentation on WdfVerifier and WdfTester in a session on Driver Testing at the Global MVP summit.  Met Mikhail Vodicka, Gianlucca Varenni, Martin O Brien and Maxim Shatskih- or rather at least exchanged greetings face-to-face, either in the session or out in the hall afterward.  I'd dropped off the OSR lists for a bit to help manage my email and workload, but after talking to Martin a bit, I decided to re-subscribe again.  Hopefully I can better manage my impulses to jump in on some of the esoteric issues that occasionally surface there...

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