getting started

[David Fraser]

Francois Gouget wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
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>>On January 7, 2003 02:25 pm, Francois Gouget wrote:
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>>> * winemaker
>>>   The assumption is that you have a Windows application (complete with
>>>CR/LF), most likely based on Visual C++ and thus with no suitable
>>>makefiles. So winemaker's goal is to quickly generate suitable Makefiles
>>>that will build Winelib applications/dlls from what it's given and fix
>>>the simple issues in the source (CR/LF, #pragmas). The backend is
>>>somewhat secondary.
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>>This touches on an issue that I'd like to avoid discussing now --
>>it deserves a separate thread. But just to note that the things
>>you've mentioned are not mutually exclusive:
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>>  -- Having the make files portable between Wine/Linux/MinGW
>>     can only be a good thing, right?
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>I think our views are not incompatible and even that we basically agree.
>However there is a difference in emphasis. I'm more interested in
>improving the front-end, especially by adding support for dsp file which
>I think would improve the usefulness of winemaker tremendously (so
>that's what I would work on if I had time). You are more interested in
>the backend and in making it compatible with MinGW.
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>However since I probably won't have time to make significant changes to
>winemaker in the near future my preferences are moot.
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>Call for help:
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>Please if you are interested in working on either aspect let us know (me
>or Dimitrie) and we will try to help you each with the part we are more
>familiar with.
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Me! Do we have a task list for this?
David