Fw: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 - joined openprinting+wine project?

[Marcel Partap]

Hi Hin-Tak,
to sum it up, I was the one working on that project and I hit some ehh.. problems ;)
Anyways, my final result was that I got something out of the printer drivers I tried with, but 
useful results depended on something that is referred to as the ominous 'DIB engine'. Coincidently, 
there was another SoC project done by Jesse Allen which started implementing that. That code ended 
up at http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/dibdrv.git, and just as mine, general+AJ's consensus was to start 
merging it post-1.0. Now I didn't have time to look again at it up to now (uni!) but I still want to 
finish this, just not as part of a SoC project. Also I wouldn't recommend that to anyone, except he 
REEEAAALLY does grok all those mysterious inner-GDI concepts (DIB DDB DDI...) that this project 
touches. I myself have not fully reached insight of how best to merge the current winex11drv, 
wined3d and Jesse's dib engine, but I'll have a thorough look at it in the next few days. Another 
unsolved issue is whether to teach wine's internal GDI functions to speak DDI or rather to build a 
wineddi.drv bridge thing. I tried both approaches but there was no clear decision whether to use one 
or the other, with Alexandre's stance being 'once something actually works we can talk about that'.
Also my code to make printer drivers work depends on some stuff within the localspooler code, I have 
to investigate how far Detlef got it to work regarding installation of drivers.
Oh yeah and that printer proxy was only a DLL to see how native windows communicates with the 
drivers without getting into disassembling stuff.. the results scared me, astonishing levels of 
redundancy.. Anyways, even though all the bits and pieces of how to make native drivers actually 
work with wine are lying around, this is neither a fun nor a beginner's task (I know that now *g). 
That said, I'm going to look into it and hope to come up with something in the next few days.
regards marcel.


Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Hi, anybody on wine-devel want to take this on and make this more concrete?
> 
> --- On Wed, 26/3/08, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 - Some general instructions for reviewing the student's applications
>> To: "Hin-Tak Leung" <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk>
>> Cc: "Casey Schaufler" <casey at schaufler-ca.com>, "'Glen Petrie'" <glen.petrie at eitc.epson.com>, "Rik van Riel" <riel at redhat.com>, "Jeff Licquia" <licquia at debian.org>, "Jon Masters" <jonmasters at gmail.com>, "Jonathan Riddell" <jriddell at ubuntu.com>, "Josef Spillner" <spillner at kde.org>, Matt_Domsch at dell.com, "Pekka Enberg" <penberg at cs.helsinki.fi>
>> Date: Wednesday, 26 March, 2008, 4:34 PM
>> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>>> Hi Till and the rest of the gang.
>>>
>>> Two people had got in touch with with about the
>> IJS+PDF workflow, and I replied. 
>>> (sorry I don't check the "other" e-mail
>> often - I probably should set up re-direction).
>> Great!
>>
>>> I thought I should also mentioned that it has just
>> came to my attention in some unrelated discussion on
>> wine-devel - been doing some non-printing wine-related
>> stuff lately - that there *was* a google summer of code
>> 2007 project for a
>>> wine-based native printer driver proxy - this is the
>> sort of thing I have had in mind
>>> for a while and I thought it would be interesting to
>> do but I don't have in-depth
>>> windows knowledge to make it happen, but the wine
>> people already did!
>>> http://google-summer-of-code-2007-wine.googlecode.com/
>>>
>>> I just downloaded the gsoc 2007 printerproxy code. It
>> seems that it is just for use
>>> from within wine, but it just might be interesting to
>> make it more general - via opvp
>>> or IJS. We should follow up on this.
>> If this project still requires coding, it is not too late
>> to add it as 
>> project idea to the ideas pages of both the Linux
>> Foundation and WINE 
>> (having it presented at two mentoring organizations raises
>> the chances 
>> to find a student).
>>
>> Our ideas page is a Wiki and you can simply edit it:
>>
>> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code
>>
>>     Till
> 
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