Re: Another GSoC idea

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Freitag 16 März 2007 02:49 schrieb Remco:
> I was thinking of a combined project between Ogre (graphics engine) and
> Wine. Ogre works on Windows and Linux. It has an OpenGL and DirectX
> backend. Maybe a student could try to get the DirectX-backend working in
> Linux with Wine.
>
> This would result in a lot of patches for Wine, and the first native Linux
> DirectX app of this size that I know of. Wouldn't that be cool?

Yes, this sounds like a good bug fixing SoC. Last I tried ogre on Wine I saw 
that the gl backend mostly works, but the d3d9 and d3d7 backends are in a bad 
shape.

Hunting those bugs should be comparably easy. Ogre is open source, and has a 
(hopefully) helpful community :-)