GSoC'08 - Tools - Scriptable Configuration

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Hello, everyone.
My name is Illya  and I'm interested in taking part in GSoC 2008 for
implementing scriptable configuration for wine.

So I'd liked to discuss it with community.

First of all - why I'm interested in that project?

Currently I'm working as a kind of "software consultant" in my city.
My primary The  primary aim of work  - helping migrating from MS
Windows platform to Linux & Open Source. Unfortunately, a great number
of different applications were written and still heavily used in
companies of my city for Windows. And this is a place where Wine makes
great help.
Need of scriptable configuration is quite critical for helping me
quickly perform standard configuration for some apps, and even more -
make "install packages" which will help users unfamiliar with Wine
quickly run their software.


Now - Why me?
Quite hard question. First of all, I have a personal interest (see
above :) ). Second - now I have strong will and real possibility (as I
estimate) to implement that project. I've looked for projects of
GSoC'07 year ago - and realized that I wasn't ready for them.

Although I'm absolutely new to wine-devel, I've been using Wine (and
no windows at my computer at all) for about a year. I have experience
working on some big projects (it is mangos WoW emulator
(http://mangosproject.org/) and especially ScriptDev2 (scripting
engine for mangos) (http://scriptdev2.com) ). Currently I have strong
skills in reading and understanding code written by others.
I have quite strong C/C++ (mostly C++) skills. I've participated in
ACM contests and received 1 place in Ukraine and we (My team) were in
top-ten in Eastern Europe Region contests.

How I see my future work?
First of all, in short term after this message (possibly on weekend)
if I receive a positive (or at least non-negative response) from
community I plan to create a specification of CLI syntax, which I
expect to be implemented by me, divided in stages to have a
step-by-step working guide. After obtaining community suggestions
that'll become a future work plan for summer. Then I'll spend some
time in wine code reading (I've already have experience in some
"hacking" for my brother's favorite games, but I need some time for
deeper understanding). And after that - the work will start. I expect
to make a weekly "reports" how the work going on, and create a series
of patches for each step defined above.

Thanks for reading probably a bit long letter, and sorry for possibly
bad English - it is far away from my mother tongue.

Best regards,
Illya Klimov