* On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Jacek Caban wrote:
HtmlHelp maker (hhc, see [1]) doesn't create internal files (parts of chm that describes stuff like index or default topic) and it's GPLed so it's useless for Wine (unless author would relicense it for us).
Quoting Paul Wise resume from the [1]:
| Started off hacking on frhed (a windows hex editor) | Made some lame/unfinished patches for POV-Ray | Wrote some tiny windows software | Wrote chmdeco/hhm/chmspec | Been hacking on activismo for a while | Looking forward to getting ADSL & contributing to xCHM, possibly WINE, GNOME, random projects. | I'd also like to become a debian developer at some stage.
Paul seems to be excited about Wine, so hhm relicensing should sound OK for him, IMHO. But only if proved it isn't breaking M$ licences [2], right?
I think it would be a good project for Google Summer of Code. The task would be to write a hhc replacement and add a help option to winecfg. hhc replacement (say whhc) would have to be a plain UNIX tool (it means a bit of code duplication with itss.dll, just like we do in widl) so we could use it during compilation. I think its difficulty is good for SoC. Compressing code may be integrated from some other project. The remaining parts are code of parser of files describing chm and a little winecfg hacking. What do you think?
Nice idea. Maybe even Paul himself would join that, as he states in his blog [3] he needs "Employment, bux, moolah, work". (I've Bcc-ed Paul in his message)
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwhtmlhelpend-userlice... [3] http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/