Re: SOC Idea: Easy usage of native DLLs in Linux programs

2006-04-19 Thread Dan Kegel
On 4/19/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the whole, I hope this happens. It would be an interesting experiment. > > One thing I don't really understand is the process for this are > students meant to trawl the wine-devel archives looking for ideas? Or > should I go stick a lin

Re: SOC Idea: Easy usage of native DLLs in Linux programs

2006-04-19 Thread Mike Hearn
> On the whole, I hope this happens. It would be an interesting experiment. One thing I don't really understand is the process for this are students meant to trawl the wine-devel archives looking for ideas? Or should I go stick a link to this thread on the wiki and students can just point to

Re: SOC Idea: Easy usage of native DLLs in Linux programs

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Dan Kegel wrote: On 4/18/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so IMHO this one shouldn't be judged on whether it gets checked in or not but rather whether it works and how easy it is to use. I wouldn't put it that way. I'd continue "and if it clearly makes the world a happy place

Re: SOC Idea: Easy usage of native DLLs in Linux programs

2006-04-18 Thread Dan Kegel
On 4/18/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GIMP now has the ability to use Photoshop plugins using Wine. And so on. As you point out later, Photoshop's plugins are out of process (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html) so that's not a good example of the problem you're trying

SOC Idea: Easy usage of native DLLs in Linux programs

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Hearn
Various projects have re-implemented the code necessary to host Win32 DLLs in-process, for instance Xine, MPlayer and GStreamer all have (different) forked, badly hacked copies of the Wine codebase inside themselves to load and use codec DLLs. The GIMP now has the ability to use Photoshop plugins u