Google Summer of Code

[Jason E. Aten]

>
> maybe QtCreator (http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/)
> (is it LGPL?) can be used as a fork base - so the ide will be
> multi-platform at start
>

I second the idea of Qt based stuff.  Yes, Qt *is now* LGPL.  Just a recent
release. How awesome is that!?!

My other suggestion for GSOC projects is three words:  or, actually, three
characters:  ZeroMQ.  That would
have *much* broader reach than dbus, if not allow easy tunnelling of dbus
between hosts (sweet).

Jason

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 3/3/11 6:10 PM, jasonw wrote:
>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>>
>>  On 3/3/11 3:48 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> Trass3r brought it up and I think it's a very good idea. D is lacking
>>>> some man power. The mentoring deadline is 11th of March. There are
>>>> important and interesting projects students may work on.
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing this post seeking answers to
>>>> 1. What's the "official" D stand on this matter?
>>>> 2. Are there already students who have time and would like to join? What
>>>>     are you interested in?
>>>>
>>>> The first question is currently the more important one. The organization
>>>> administrator has to submit an application until the above deadline.
>>>> The purpose of the second question is to get some feedback whether it
>>>> would be worthwhile to submit an application. Because later on students
>>>> need to propose/join a project.
>>>>
>>>> Jens
>>>>
>>>> PS
>>>> The FAQs on http://code.google.com/soc/ is very helpful.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this idea. I plan to submit an organization application. As
>>> of now I'm unclear whether Digital Mars would be the best organization
>>> to apply, as opposed to an unincorporated "d-programming-language.org"
>>> entity. I'll discuss this with Walter. All, please chime in if you have
>>> related experience.
>>>
>>> We have a number of good projects to work on:
>>>
>>> * XML library
>>>
>>> * Networking library
>>>
>>> * IDE
>>>
>>> * Lexer/parser generator
>>>
>>> * Containers
>>>
>>> * Encryption/hashing
>>>
>>> * Thrift bindings
>>>
>>
>> What is Thrift? I read it's a Facebook technology which would benefit
>> your career, not D especially.
>>
>
> (Not speaking on behalf of Facebook.) That's not reading, it's reading plus
> speculating. Also, there are two mistakes. One, Thrift is an open source
> technology used outside Facebook. Second, with me on board, Facebook is
> possibly more likely than other influential companies to try out D. If
> Facebook does start using D systematically (and availability of Thrift
> bindings is an essential ingredient), then a lot of companies will take
> notice.
>
>
>  Not trying to be political, but as we
>> know Facebook and Google are competing enemies. Why do you think
>> Google would support some Facebook project financially?
>>
>
> I don't think they'd put things that way, but then I don't know.
>
>
>  Why not write D-Bus bindings? D-Bus is the de facto protocol on all
>> modern open source operating systems. About as important as COM or
>> CLR. COM is supported by D. Why not D-Bus? D-Bus is politically
>> neutral technology.
>>
>
> As long as we're just enumerating possible projects, sure.
>
>
> Andrei
>



-- 
Jason E. Aten, Ph.D.
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