Updating GSoC proposal

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 12:03:49 CDT 2012


Hello Alex,

On 03/20/2012 05:17 PM, HolyCause wrote:
> On 3/20/12 07:22, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Agreed, would like to add cmd parser to that list too.
>>
>> ~Maarten
> Why is this? Does cmd sound like a bad project?
> 
> FWIW I was planning on improving cmd as my GSoC project, and I've talked
> to Dan Kegel about it - there's been no protests (only support) thus far
> on that front, so it at least seems doable.
Writing a proper cmd parser is doable.
Getting that into Wine in small and incremental patches will be hard as
a big drop in patch is not an option.

> In terms of being valid... if cmd were improved it would allow firefox
> and chromium to be built under wine (if reg was also improved a bit, but
> that might also fall under my project...)
Improving cmd should be fine as a project. Hoping to get the parser
fully replaced during that isn't.

bye
	michael



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