On 6/6/06, EA Durbin ead1234@hotmail.com wrote:
I've decided to concentrate my efforts in another area, so I won't be looking at msi any longer. I admit I 'm no C expert, I'm a web developer by trade. Though I started to look at the C code to get away from php/perl/ruby and get aquainted with the language in my leisure time, I need no assitance with web development. As I would still like to contribute to the wine project I will be focusing my efforts on Appdb and Bugzilla.
Well, that's great too but I don't want to see you give up! :) I know this particular adventure hasn't gone quite right but there's plenty of areas you can contribute. When I started I was no C expert either but it's a simple language and can be quickly learned. Often this happens, you debug something to find that it's in an area not many people can work on.
If you want my advice, it'd be to just try your hand at debugging random apps. Find one that doesn't work, poke it a bit to find out why not, if you aren't getting anywhere throw it away and move onto the next. This lets you see a lot of the code quickly, and you'll probably find that some bugs are much easier to fix than the one you found.
thanks -mike