Joel wrote:
... It does not seem like there are enough issues with the current implementation to justify scrapping the current parser.
The existing parser is pretty hard to understand and extend. We're probably a few man-months away from the point of diminishing returns, and I'm sure there are some bugs that can't be fixed without a rewrite. Have you read it enough to understand it yet? ( see also http://kegel.com/wine/sweng/2010/#parser )
The way I would go about this task would be to fix all the outstanding bugs, and add test cases for them ...
Incremental improvements to the current parser would still be welcome and useful. For instance, supporting cmd /a ( see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21174 for someone's draft patch ). - Dan
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Dan Kegel