Kai Blin wrote:
Hi folks,
after another chat about Wine's goals in respect to FUSE file systems on IRC, I just wanted to point the students who applied for this project already (I've Bcced them) at the goals Wine has for this GSoC project.
For Wine, the goal is to create prototype FUSE file systems so we can figure out if this approach is useful to Wine at all. There is no immediate goal to include the file systems into Wine in the near future, we first want to know if they're what we need.
First, I haven't yet applied for the project mainly because i will probably not be able to work full time on a GSoC project due to real life issues (part time job, family related things etc). On the other hand I doubt that it will require ~3 months to implement, I have done my prototype over more or less a weekend.
I miss the technical discussion on how the problem should be solved. I think the idea of keeping the original filename in an extended attribute and storing everything in lower case is a pretty good one. Andrew Tridgell also listed it on one of his slides from WineConf05 [1]. I prototyped something and thought this way I would at least get some feedback (after all "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." is common practice in the open source world). But this wasn't really the case, so i am still wondering what should be done differently?
Regards, Marc
[1]http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/slides/tridge_wineconf05.pdf (page 18)