Summer of Code Project: DirectPlay

["Alexander N. Sørnes"]

Adam Luchjenbroers skrev:

>On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:47, Francois Gouget wrote:
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>>On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote:
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>>>With the way DirectPlay works, we could provide our own provider and a
>>>compatible provider if we so wanted (at least, to the extent of my
>>>knowledge).
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>>IMHO we should saves ourselves some work and only do the compatible
>>provider since it will be needed anyway.
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>If it's any sizeable amount of work, true - although I'm investigating using 
>an existing LGPL network library to implement a provider.
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>If it turns out to be a relatively simple task, then we can provide it, 
>partially as an early solution, but the big benefit I see is that we can use 
>it to test the infrastructure and make sure the rest works while we implement 
>the DirectPlay provider.
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>Got them printed out, unfortunately ATM I lack a licensed version of Windows 
>with which to do the sniffing :\
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What Windows version would you be interested in?