RE: [ros-dev] Wine sync

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Eric Kohl wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Eric
> I just started a three-week vacation and I'm upgrading my 
> computer right 
> now. My plan is to start porting WIDL this week.

If you get chance to look at StartService too, I'll owe you beer or 3 ;)
> PS: I think the WIDL source can be unlocked because it is 
> based on WINE 
> and the additional code was written by me, using IDL test 
> files and MIDL 
> from MSVC6.

I agree. I think we need to draft up a process for unlocking code in the
repository.
The first port of call needs to be confirmation from the author. If the
author confirms clean methods were utilised to write the code, it
automatically fast tracks the audit.

I know Arty has a good process for code which doesn't fall into this
category.

I'll try and get some sort of flowchart onto the wiki tonight.

Ged.

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[Thomas Weidenmueller]

Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
> If you get chance to look at StartService too, I'll owe you beer or 3 ;)

In order to properly get these things working, we desperately need
support for context_handle in WIDL... Apart from that, WIDL is somewhat
limited. I think we're better off using MIDL and save the output in SVN.
It's next to impossible to implement many things that are rather simple
with all these limitations...

- Thomas

[Saveliy Tretiakov]

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
> In order to properly get these things working, we desperately need
>
> support for context_handle in WIDL... Apart from that, WIDL is somewhat
> limited. I think we're better off using MIDL and save the output in SVN.
> It's next to impossible to implement many things that are rather simple
> with all these limitations...

Yeah, limitied widl is a stopper to development of many things in ROS. I 
already started working towards
support of context handles. In order to do this, we need typedef support 
implemented first. My proposal of handling
typedefs in widl is currently under discussion and I hope it gets 
approved and accepted by wine.