WineLib porting project for small Windows application

[Eric Rhodes]

Hi Wine developers,

My name is Eric Rhodes and I work for Schmap, Inc. (www.schmap.com).

I'm posting this message to find out if any of you would be 
interested in working with us on a Mac "porting" project for a small 
Windows application (using Wine). A full project description is set 
forth below.

Please feel free to contact me directly at 919-246-0186 (or via email 
at [e-mail]) if you are 
interested in this project, or if you would like to refer someone 
else that might be.

Thanks and happy holidays,

Eric Rhodes

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Our Company
Schmap is a media and technology company with a focus on developing 
client and server based consumer mapping solutions with a geospatial 
twist - see www.schmap.com.

The Project
We are seeking a senior engineer with strong C++ (preferably MS C++) 
to assist us with a self-contained WineLib porting project, working 
alongside two engineers who helped develop the Windows application to 
be ported. Mac programming experience is desired but not absolutely necessary.

Specific Responsibilities
Initial consultation and project setup; project planning (liasing 
with the CTO to develop a plan for the port); general code porting 
(outside of the consultancy role, you'll also be expected to get your 
hands dirty with some coding once the port gets underway); reporting 
on progress to the CTO.

Duration
Initial 4 to 8 week contract, with potential for extension depending 
on how the work progresses.

Location
One week onsite in Beijing, China required (beginning mid January 
2007); remainder offsite. Must be eligible for Chinese visa.

In addition to the fees for this project, we will fly you to Beijing 
and put you up in comfortable accommodations at our expense.

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Eric Rhodes wrote:
> Hi Wine developers,
>
> My name is Eric Rhodes and I work for Schmap, Inc. (www.schmap.com).
>
> I'm posting this message to find out if any of you would be 
> interested in working with us on a Mac "porting" project for a small 
> Windows application (using Wine). A full project description is set 
> forth below.

Since you mention that it is a "small" application it may be suitable
to simply do a direct cross-platform port (Mac, Linux, Windows, handheld,
others) via wxWidgets (just in case you haven't considered that yet).
However this would be quite easy only in case of the app being written
in MFC, since wxWidgets is *very* similar to MFC (it's very similar
to the point of merely requiring a scripted API name string replacement
in several code areas!) and thus other Win32 programming methods
(raw Win32, Borland, ...) would face more issues during porting.

Having said that I'm quite sure that a WineLib port is less of a pain
than having to touch the whole source code in a wx port,
and development work should be at least as comfortable, and due to
source code availability you should be able to directly interface with
Mac OS functionality on WineLib, too.

Thank you very much for your offer/query, it's very much appreciated
to have these kinds of queries on this list!

Yours sincerely,

Andreas Mohr