On Thursday 01 April 2010 06:15:41 John Koelndorfer wrote: > DESCRIPTION > In Wine daily (as of 3/31/2010) .NET fails to install. The Wine debugging > output is riddled with stubs and fixmes. My initial work would be to examine > which functions are needed by the installer and prioritize work on them. > Priority would be given to blockers, obviously. Much of the work to be done > seems to be in advapi and msi; I would work with more experienced developers > in those areas to push patches through. I would expect this to take perhaps > six weeks of time, though it is hard to say since it depends largely on what > functions need to be implemented and how difficult implementation would be.
This is not something within GSOC scope in my opinion, I expect you will need 6 weeks alone to get up to speed with the concepts of msi and patching. In general I think it's better to identify a small set of APIs to implement or improve instead of aiming for a broad goal like "improving .net 3.5", which is hard to quantify and more likely to fail. -Hans
