Dan Kegel wrote:
I don't think this is good for an SoC project, because the changes are small, and you'll spend more time arguing with Alexandre about the right way to do it than doing actual coding.
The changes may sound small to you, but they're probably a month's work for a newbie. The student could then spend the second month converting some open source project that currently has a hacked, embedded copy of Wine to use vanilla wine, maybe. I think it's perfectly appopriate, especially if we consider it a proof of concept and not something that has to be integrated into the Wine tree by end of summer to be a success.
It's really Alexandre's call. It seems like he's probably going to have to spend as much time mentoring that application as he would writing the code himself.
Mike