On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jacek Caban jacek@codeweavers.com wrote:
Jim Chen wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have this idea of implementing vbscript.dll for Google SoC. Any comment would be appreciated before I start working on my proposal.
It would be great to have vbscript.dll implemented in Wine and I hope that some day we will have it, but I think you underestimate amount of work on it. It's a much bigger task than the usual SoC projects, IMO. Please do some research before deciding to work on it. I've found Eric Lippert's blog very useful for information about active scripts http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/default.aspx esp. the archive from 2004. If you'll decide to apply for this project, please describe it well enough so we know that you can accomplish it.
Jacek
Wow thanks for the link! Surprisingly useful (for something from MS :D) I've been doing research and I understand it will be a huge effort. I've already applied to the windowless Rich Edit project, which will most likely be easier than this, but I think this one will be more exciting because it's more challenging :) I'm more than willing to continue after SoC if I end up working on it. I don't have to implement the newest version either, with support for classes, etc. If I just implement VBScript say up to 2.0 that's within reach, I think.
Thanks again! Jim