Hi there, My name is Daniel Ferreira and I'd like to spend a Google Summer of Code implementing the proposal to "port WebKit to GNUstep" (or, most likely, a subset of it) as announced on the GNUstep ideas website, and try to get the GNUstep browser issue closer to a solution. However, aside from this thread
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2007-03/msg00314.html and this more recent one: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2015-06/msg00108.html there is almost zero detail implementation-wise of how this goal would be attained, and only architectural discussions about how to approach the web browser problem. Despite being a little late to the party, I'd like some help to be able to craft a decent proposal (or at least figure out how to approach the problem). I spent the last two days setting up a build environment for both GNUstep and WebKit, and I hoped I would be able to grasp the dimension of the effort by trying to build it with OSX as a target and see how many linking errors I got when trying to build it on top of the GNUstep libraries. However, it complains about the lack of frameworks that I don't believe are even in the GNUstep roadmap (Accelerate, AudioToolbox, IOKit), so I think I'm following a wrong approach here. That said, I'd really appreciate an (updated) explanation of what are the current obstacles to getting that port done, or what can I do/build to get a better understanding of it :) Also: despite the extremely short schedule, I'm totally up to writing a small patch to GNUstep or something if you'd like some sort of proof that I can go around the project. About me: I'm a Brazilian student and I'll start college at Stanford University this fall. I've done system modifications in the iOS jailbreaking community ("tweaks") and some apps, and during that time I could get some pretty decent experience with Core* Apple APIs (although I really look forward to learn more about their internals and how they could be implemented) as well as Objective-C. I've also written a bunch of C/C++ code for my employer (a payment processing company) and some on github.com/theiostream. Again, I'm really interesting on how these internals are (or can be) implemented, and that's why I got so interested in this project. (I am sending this e-mail to both the summer-of-code and the discuss-gnustep lists separately. I'm sorry if anyone gets this twice, but I'm really unsure regarding in what channel this will reach someone.) Thanks, and hoping I can get some answers in time, -- Daniel. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
