Ivan Pechorin wrote:
Hello!
I'm in trouble trying to estimate effort needed to implement marshalling interoperable with MS. Is it a right task for 2-2.5 months of Google's "Summer of Code"?
DCOM is a much larger project requiring some degree of infrastructure work that would be difficult for a person new to the Wine codebase and new to COM. So DCOM is probably out of reach, but the underlying protocol, DCE/RPC is probably right for 2-2.5 months of work. The work will involve parsing MIDL format strings and marshaling/unmarshaling data correctly to/from a buffer. The project should be easier for a new, but bright coder who hasn't yet built up a knowledge of Win32 / POSIX APIs than many other projects. I could provide a test program that exercises and certain number of Ndr types and say "make this work". We could vary the number of types to vary the amount of work.