mingw and Direct X headers

[Shane King]

Hi guys,

I just wanted to ask here about the direct X headers we're using 
(they're mostly ones I've imported from WINE or written myself). I know 
that the mingw package we're using contains some direct X stuff as well, 
and it would be great if we could somehow get the headers we need 
integrated upstream. I know the Qt guys would like to be able to support 
phonon on mingw but can't without the appropriate headers for that 
compiler (as obviously using the kde windows stuff is not an option for 
them). If they could maintain the direct show backend on mingw it would 
make life easier for us too, since new checkins wouldn't run the risk of 
breaking the mingw build.

Any thoughts on this, and who we should be talking with to try to get 
the headers into the upstream distribution? There's also a patch for the 
vmr9.h header we apply when emerging that ideally should get included in 
the next upstream release too.

Shane.