Re:[ros-general] Google Summer Of Code 2006 mentoring organizationrequest

[Saveliy Tretiakov]

> Improving WIDL so we have to stop relying on
> MIDL (for RPC stuff, this is CRITICAL for ROS services)

Bad task. Midl format strings are undocumented. Only few hackers can implement them. 
Only improving widl won't help us because some rpcrt4 features are not implemented too.
Eric Kohl is already working on some missing widl features.

[Alex Ionescu]

Saveliy Tretiakov wrote:
> > Improving WIDL so we have to stop relying on
> > MIDL (for RPC stuff, this is CRITICAL for ROS services)
>
> Bad task. Midl format strings are undocumented.

So is most of the stuff we do.
> Only few hackers can
> implement them.

Doubt it. Anyone can write test cases and implementations.
> Only improving widl won't help us because some rpcrt4
> features are not implemented too.

Some help is better then no help. I don't see your point.
> Eric Kohl is already working on some missing widl features.

At a (no offense) snail's pace. Greatlord is also already working on DX.
Fireball is already working on USB, etc. Why is more help and a finished
product bad?

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
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[Saveliy Tretiakov]

Well, ok.
If Eric Kohl agrees to mentor this project, then it's no problem. Or 
maybe you can do it?

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Saveliy Tretiakov wrote:
> > > Improving WIDL so we have to stop relying on
> > > MIDL (for RPC stuff, this is CRITICAL for ROS services)
> >
> > Bad task. Midl format strings are undocumented.
>
> So is most of the stuff we do.
> > Only few hackers can
> > implement them.
>
> Doubt it. Anyone can write test cases and implementations.
> > Only improving widl won't help us because some rpcrt4
> > features are not implemented too.
>
> Some help is better then no help. I don't see your point.
> > Eric Kohl is already working on some missing widl features.
>
> At a (no offense) snail's pace. Greatlord is also already working on DX.
> Fireball is already working on USB, etc. Why is more help and a finished
> product bad?
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
> > Ros-general mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
>
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