froscon2010 - PREVIEW
FrOSCon
Free and Open Source Software Conference
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Wolfram Sang |
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Day | Day 2 - 2010-08-22 |
Room | HS4 |
Start time | 11:15 |
Duration | 01:00 |
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ID | 537 |
Event type | Lecture |
Track | Behind the scenes |
Language used for presentation | English |
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Developer's Diary: The WINE project
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Pursuing my personal quest "1000 projects to send patches to before I die", I also approached the WINE-project. WINE aims to provide a software-layer which runs Windows-binaries directly on a Linux/BSD-system. This means no less than reimplementing the Windows-APIs as free software! Having this goal, WINE development is special for a number of legal, technical and collaborational reasons. In other words: it is highly challenging. This talk explains how I got in touch with the workflow, how I dealt with its peculiarities and why they are needed. I will not talk much about using the program or about its APIs, but more about its creation process. Using a concrete bugfix as an example, you can have an introduction into WINE-development, learn how to get connected (and if you want that), and have a glimpse how this large-scale free software project is working.