Re: Need suggestion to choose a GSoC idea

2012-03-26 Thread HolyCause
Qian, - Improve Wine App install / App running testing This idea is similar with Austin's early work [18], my idea is using sikuli [19] instead of autohotkey, since sikuli is more powerful for complex work. Sikuli using tesseract as orc engine, so if we done this job we can prevent many font re

Re: Updating GSoC proposal

2012-03-21 Thread HolyCause
Jacek, Perhaps there would be needed some temporary hacks that would allow mixing new and old parsing code while it's rewritten part by part. I think such a project would be good, as long as student is prepared to deal with this. I'm not sure we want to promote larger tasks on cmd, such as GS

Re: Updating GSoC proposal

2012-03-20 Thread HolyCause
michael, > Getting that into Wine in small and incremental patches will be hard as > a big drop in patch is not an option. I don't know if I understand "a big drop in patch"... Do you mean committing all of the changes as one, large patch? On that note, are GSoC projects done in smaller, indiv

Re: Updating GSoC proposal

2012-03-20 Thread HolyCause
On 3/20/12 07:22, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: Agreed, would like to add cmd parser to that list too. ~Maarten Why is this? Does cmd sound like a bad project? FWIW I was planning on improving cmd as my GSoC project, and I've talked to Dan Kegel about it - there's been no protests (only support) t