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[Steven Edwards]

How about porting wineserver to Windows via Mingw+MSYS or fix the Cygwin port. It still would not
run as dll seperation of kernel32/ntdll needs to be done but I have been wanting to see this for a
while and for Cygwin its not to much work. 99% of it compiles it just needs Get/SetThreadContext
imeplemented. Its not a huge amount of work. 

Even at that if I had the time, know-how, was in school and could get credit for working on a open
source project I would not work on WINE but port User Mode Linux to Windows. The Line project
already has a elf loader that will let you run Linux apps in Cygwin so its adapting that UML and
doing a port for a Mingw target. I just think it would be really nice to be able to run Linux on
top of a NT kernel so if ReactOS is ever ready you guys could have Linux on top of a kernel
running NT/2K drivers.

Thanks
Steven

--- Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A prof. in a locale university is doing a summer course about open 
> source development. I gave them a short power point lecture (on Linux 
> :-), and showed them IE running, and managed to hook one vulenteer to do 
> his assignment in Wine.
> 
> I have managed to interest him in some of open issues that are close to 
> my heart (i.e. - BiDi related issues). However, this is far from final. 
> I'm sure he would love to hear about other interesting areas, but some 
> criteria must be kept.
> 
> It must be a task that is moreorless self contained (he is supposed to 
> be graded for it at the end), and it must be something known to be 
> possible in a reasonable amount of hours (i.e - it can't be 
> "implementing MSI"). Then again, it can't be something too trivial (i.e. 
> - not "localize notepad").
> 
> Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and 
> making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit 
> control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to 
> him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)
> 
>                 Shachar
> P.S.
> No, I have not dropped of the face of the planet, and I still read this 
> list. Just too busy to be doing anything useful (except hiring other 
> working hands, which may count for something, I guess). I'll be back, 
> though.
> 
> -- 
> Shachar Shemesh
> Open Source integration consultant
> Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
> 
> 
> 


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