DCOM and Google's Summer of Code

Robert Shearman rob at codeweavers.com
Wed Jun 1 13:30:21 CDT 2005


Ivan Pechorin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I'm in trouble trying to estimate effort needed to implement
>marshalling interoperable with MS.
>Is it a right task for 2-2.5 months of Google's "Summer of Code"?
>  
>
DCOM is a much larger project requiring some degree of infrastructure 
work that would be difficult for a person new to the Wine codebase and 
new to COM.
So DCOM is probably out of reach, but the underlying protocol, DCE/RPC 
is probably right for 2-2.5 months of work. The work will involve 
parsing MIDL format strings and marshaling/unmarshaling data correctly 
to/from a buffer. The project should be easier for a new, but bright 
coder who hasn't yet built up a knowledge of Win32 / POSIX APIs than 
many other projects. I could provide a test program that exercises and 
certain number of Ndr types and say "make this work". We could vary the 
number of types to vary the amount of work.

-- 
Rob Shearman




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