RE: Stub implementation of CABINET.DLL

[Jeff Smith]

> From: Patrik Stridvall 
> To: "'Greg Turner'" , [e-mail]
> > On Friday 15 November 2002 12:47 pm, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> > > Now that we have the permission to use cabextract
> > > under the LGPL it would be useful to have stubs
> > > for CABINET.DLL so intrested people can work
> > > with implementing it with fewer "infrastructure"
> > > problems.
>
> [snip]
> > Anyone working on this?  If not I'd be glad to take it on,
> > seems like it
> > should be easy.
>
> I personally doesn't currently have that much time to work with it.
>
> However, when I saw that not much happend despite
> getting code from cabextrect under LGPL I thought
> that perhaps people were having trouble on how
> to create a new DLL in Wine and how to extract
> the declarations from the Microsoft header without
> creating a derived work. I have done it many
> times before so thought why not do it...
>
> So I very happy that somebody is intrested in continuing.
>
> PS. If anybody have some other DLL that they wish to implement
> but don't now how to do it, don't hesitate to ask me to
> create a stub DLL with related headers.

If it is not too much effort, could you elaborate on the
derived work issue.  I have been thinking about trying to
stub out, then work at implementing, a particular component.
Rather than have someone else do the work, I am more
interested in learning about doing it myself, and about
any issues (legal and technical) involved.
  I am not asking for a complete howto here, but even a
summary of the highlights would be quite valuable (to me
at least).

-- Thanks
-- Jeff S.

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