Google Summer of Code 2011 application

[Jens Mueller]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/8/11 3:11 PM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> >Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>I just submitted an application for GSoC 2011 on behalf of Digital
> >>Mars. Please review and contribute to the project ideas page:
> >>
> >>http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas
> >
> >Great. I find all of the provided projects useful. Maybe one should add
> >ZeroMQ to the bindings project. I haven't used it myself. But it seems
> >useful.
> >Before I change the wiki page I'd like to receive some feedback for some
> >ideas. Somehow I think it's important to offer not too much. Just tell
> >what's important for you and what you really miss in D.
> >
> >=Improved documentation=
> >I think there should be a standard theme (like the one you find for
> >Java; Candydoc is a good step in that direction) and unittests should be
> >included in the documentation
> >(http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2630).
> >This is not much. Maybe more can be added.
> >
> >=Testing Framework=
> >Building a testing framework on top of the available built-in unittests
> >and assertions. Includes maybe also improving the built-in assert and
> >build-in unittests (named unittests). Something like GoogleTest.
> >
> >=Logging Library=
> >It was once on the list but it didn't lead to anything. Something like
> >Google-glog.
> >
> >=Units Library=
> >It was once on the list but it didn't lead to anything. Like
> >Boost.Units.
> >
> >=Containers=
> >What about better/more containers for std.container. Which?
> >
> >=std.sysinfo/core.cpuid=
> >There is core.cpuid. I think it has no unittests which is bad. At least
> >on Linux one could try parsing /proc/cpuinfo to have some tests.
> >std.sysinfo would be an extension to core.cpuid providing system
> >specific information that are not covered by core.cpuid.
> >
> >I'm going to write better descriptions in the wiki page if a project is
> >considered interesting.
> >
> >Jens
> 
> Of these I think logging, units, and containers would be good.

I added those.

Jens