Re: GNUstep, Google Summer of Code, and an idea

[David Chisnall]

Thanks Fred,

Projects that I'd be interested in mentoring:

- Finishing NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock and adding 
relevant UI components (e.g. OS X has some inspectors for these that let you 
create tables and lists in a text view).

- Implement Cocoa Bindings properly.  We have some partial implementations of 
the controller classes, but they're not finished / tested.  With 10.6, Apple 
shipped an NSTreeController implementation that only causes segfaults 
occasionally (like, when you run one of their example apps), rather than all of 
the time (as with 10.5), so people will probably start using this stuff a lot 
more.

- Integrating Opal with -base, splitting out the drawing / event handling code 
into separate libraries, possibly starting work on UIKit.

- Basic CoreAnimation support.  The central part of CoreAnimation just does 
interpolation over some simple functions and modifies properties via KVC.  

- Porting GNUstep to the browser.  I committed an Objective-C to JavaScript 
compiler to Étoilé svn over the weekend.  Many GNUstep classes should work 
as-is, some will want reimplementing wrapping their JavaScript equivalents 
(e.g. GSDictionary, GSString, GSArray), and the drawing-related classes will 
need tweaking to draw on a canvas.  The final step would be implementing 
DO-over-WebSocket, so you can run view and maybe controller classes in the 
browser, model classes on the server, and have stuff Just Work™

And, of course, suggestions from motivated students...

David

On 23 Mar 2011, at 09:44, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> On 22.03.2011 15:02, Adam Fedor wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> 
>>> On 20.03.2011 20:46, Denis Washington wrote:
>>>> I have seen that the GNU project has been accepted for this
>>>> year's Google Summer of Code, but the ideas list does not list
>>>> anything related to GNUstep. Does that mean that the GNUstep
>>>> project will not mentor any students?
>>> 
>>> He is right, we already are rather late in the GSoC time line[1]
>>> and we didn't even contact the GNU people [2] and told them that we
>>> want to participate. I think Adam sorted that our last year. Maybe
>>> it still isn't to late to apply with GNU? Anybody willing to
>>> contact them? Greg, Adam, Lars? I may not be the best person for
>>> that this year, having stolen half the GNU dinner reservation at
>>> FOSDEM :-)
>>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, I though some one else was going to handle it.  I'm on
>> vacation now so it would be hard for me.  But it should be relatively
>> easy to find the GNU GSoC administrator on the GSoC site and contact
>> them about it.
> 
> 
> After Adam and Lars don't have time for this (And Greg didn't even
> reply), I send a short mail to the GNU team that we would like to
> participate under their umbrella. Maybe this still works out. I also set
> up a page in our wiki for GSoC 2011
> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_2011. This is currently
> mostly a copy from last years page. Could everybody please join in an
> update this page as well as the page with the general ideas for GSoC?
> 
> Fred
> 
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