Re: GNUstep Google Summer of Code 2008

[Fred Kiefer]

Quentin Mathé wrote:
> Le 30 mars 08 à 14:52, Fred Kiefer a écrit :
>
> > Adam Fedor wrote:
> > > GNustep was accepted as a mentoring organization for 2008 Google SoC!
> > > However, that means we have a lot of work to do in the next few weeks.
> > > There is barely a week before students are able to submit applications
> > > for projects, and only a week after that is the deadline for 
> > > applications.
> > >
> > > I need help updating the project ideas page:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_Ideas
> > To me this list looks a bit outdated. At least the bit about NSPredicate
> > should be changed or removed. There are still bits missing for this
> > class and its subclasses, but most ot the features listed in this wiki
> > entry are there and have been there for almost least a year now.
> >
> > I am not sure about the NSOpenGL entry, to me it looks like we have
> > classes for that on Windows and X11, but there was a bug report on that
> > just recently, so maybe they are broken at the moment.
> >
> > Quentin, as most of the entries seem to come from you, could you please
> > have a look and remove or update the outdated ones?
>
> I removed some outdated ones and also updated a few others. Could you 
> check NSEPSImageRep and NSPDFImageRep suggestion because I'm not really 
> sure about what has to be done for these classes. I also don't know the 
> current state of OpenGL classes and formatter classes. Feedback for 
> these would be welcome if anybody use them.

Thank you for looking into that.
As for NSEPSImageRep and NSPDFImageRep, here it wont help us to use 
cairo. Cairo is able to write these formats, but wont read them. We will 
need to use some other library to to read and process the formats.
I am currently looking into OpenGL, as far as I can tell, this used to 
work, but was broken when I changed NSView not to call lockFocusInRect: 
on all sub views. There are a few ways to fix that quickly (for example 
override the method canDraw instead). But currently I am looking into 
cleaning up the whole code here, this may take a bit longer. From all I 
can tell this isn't a SoC item, though.

Fred