Hi,
Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
Hi Xavier,
Does GAP stand for "Application project" ? Does that mean that any
GNUstep/Cocoa based project could be submitted ? And not only GNUstep
specific.
- new 3DKit
- multiplatform OpenGL extensions API (glu-like)
- multiplatform HID API : joystick...
Or any graphic or gaming related project in which some students will
surely be interested.
Well GAP stands for GNUstep Application Project. So The focus is
GNUstep, not just any application. We strive to be cross-platform with
Cocoa though and have several applications ported /from/ OpenStep or
Cocoa as well as ported /to/ them.
Currenly GAP has a lot of applications, several of them never announced
because they are far from complete. My biggest interest would be to
finish them off, but this is of course not so interesting for a student.
The only exception might be FlexiSheet.
A project could be: take application X and port it to gnustep.
Another one could be: write one from scratch.
(...)
Instead of Games, I think user application, office appplication,
developer applications and system tools are far more important (but
maybe less cool for students).
(...)
Of course, theses projects would be x-Step based.
I thought of some simple projects and some more difficult ones.
I dont think we should spend many time on dead or forgotten apps, like
Flexisheet. A GNUstep gui would be fine, but would die soon because of
the lack of an application maintainer. That would also occur in th case
of an application written from scratch.
IMHO OpenOffice for GNUstep might be more promising than FlexiSheet,
despite OpenOffice is not a so good application. Gnumeric (Gnome) or
KSpread (KDE) might also be good candidates, even if only the core
engine is used.
But I agree with you : a good x-Step based speadsheet would be more
interesting than any classic spreadsheet port ;)
-- Xavier
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