re: GSoC: reg.exe

[Dan Kegel]

> [Somebody is already working on reg.exe.]
> Does that mean the project is no longer free for grabs?

It depends.  The SoC staff frown on joint projects, but
it's possible.  I would suggest looking at other useful
commandline utilities (see e.g. the list at
http://commandwindows.com ) and check wine's bugzilla
to see if any have been requested, and then propose those.
- Dan

GSoC: reg.exe

[Max99x]

> [Look at other command line utilities]

Thanks for the advice. So far it seems the stuff on the ConsoleConfiguration
wiki page is the only requested config-related console programs. I'd be
interested in implementing ftype.exe and assoc.exe from the list you linked
to, but when reg.exe is completed, they would become pretty redundant - a
shell script would be able to do the same tasks with much less code.

GSoC: reg.exe

[Jan Zerebecki]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:45:47PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > [Somebody is already working on reg.exe.]
> > Does that mean the project is no longer free for grabs?
>
> It depends.  The SoC staff frown on joint projects, but
> it's possible.

It seem that Andrew Riedi, the author of the reg.exe stub woun't
participate in this years GSoC and is willing to leave work to a
GSoC student. I suppose that can be cleanly enough separated so
that it couldn't be seen as a joint project anymore than the
whole Wine itself.

I have no idea how much work there is in a reg.exe
implementation... but if there is (or will be) enough left that
means this project is still free.

Jan