2009/3/29 Daniel Kraft <d@domob.eu>

Hi,

I would be interested in working on WINE for Google Summer of Code (as I would like to get into WINE and learn more about it from the developer's side of view; I imagine this is a very educational and interesting experience in addition to being simply an interesting free software project to work on).

On the ideas list is a project about improving handling of DOS graphics mode, this sounds interesting to me. I've got good experience with C, C++ and other programming languages as well as programming in general, but so far no knowledge at all about WINE apart from using it.

Do you think this would be a good project to apply for and get into WINE? (Thus both useful for the community as well as a good point for me without WINE experience so far.)

Regarding free software in general, I've already worked with some projects including Mozilla and GCC, so I should be familiar with standard development practices involved.

Thank you very much,
Daniel

i for one would love to see this part of wine advance. i think it can even be too much for a SoC, it's not that easy of a task, mostly because there's not as good a documentation as for regular .dlls.

i don't have much info on the subject but i'd suggest you check Jeremiah Fletchinger's patches that are not yet submitted and improve them if you decide to take this role, as a first task.
i bet there are some people around who can give you more hints on what to do and a good mentor :)