On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Vincent Povirk madewokherd+8cd9@gmail.com wrote:
If you want to do something in the .NET area perhaps some work can be done on Mono integration (see the mono topic Vincent started) and the wiki (http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono).
While this has the advantage of being an area where no one has done any serious work yet (and therefore, there is likely low-hanging fruit), I don't know how you could focus this so that the scope is clear and it is easily quantified.
I also don't have a sense yet of what working on Mono in Wine is like. I'm still a Mono noob, as I've done no real development there.
I think that something useful could come out of such a project, but I cannot predict what.
Perhaps there are some apps which mix .NET and win32 (I mean mixing in a nice way and not overriding wndproc and evil stuff). Years ago Paint.NET was ported over to Mono. I don't remember what they did but I guess they mainly removed some win32isms. The code to paint.net used to be available (I think the 3.0 source still is). You could check if it is a well behaving .NET app which uses win32. Getting Paint.NET working on mono+wine could be a good test case. Note since both of you are in MSP that might have advantages as well.
Roderick