On Thursday 01 April 2010 06:15:41 John Koelndorfer wrote:
DESCRIPTION In Wine daily (as of 3/31/2010) .NET fails to install. The Wine debugging output is riddled with stubs and fixmes. My initial work would be to examine which functions are needed by the installer and prioritize work on them. Priority would be given to blockers, obviously. Much of the work to be done seems to be in advapi and msi; I would work with more experienced developers in those areas to push patches through. I would expect this to take perhaps six weeks of time, though it is hard to say since it depends largely on what functions need to be implemented and how difficult implementation would be.
This is not something within GSOC scope in my opinion, I expect you will need 6 weeks alone to get up to speed with the concepts of msi and patching.
In general I think it's better to identify a small set of APIs to implement or improve instead of aiming for a broad goal like "improving .net 3.5", which is hard to quantify and more likely to fail.
-Hans