> > 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 < [email protected]> 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.
