Kai Blin wrote:
Feel free to add your own project ideas, maybe elaborate a bit on the deliverables of the idea.
Here's my idea that I'm hoping someone will take up:
Write a case insensitive FUSE filesystem for us to put the entire ~/.wine directory in. See http://wiki.winehq.org/CaseInsensitiveFilenames
There are two main advantages to this: Sometimes applications break because users need to install a patch by hand into the filesystem (say, a zip file), and the files within have a different case then the files they're supposed to overwrite. This leads to multiples of the same file, and Wine sometimes chooses the older one, leading to weird breakages.
More importantly, a FUSE filesystem like this would allow us to finally get some speedups by no longer having to prove case-insensitive files don't exist. This is a direct cause of some apps working very very slowly, including install shield (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3817)
Interestingly, this doesn't strictly have to be a Wine SOC project. It could fairly easily stand on its own. We'd probably be the only user though, so I mention it here.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie