From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Farrington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Summer of Code 2009 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: <85F9D8B0-496A-4320-BF58-754DA196F2F7@gmail.com> References: <18797.40998.179248.71695@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87k58wg9qk.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net> <18800.13052.960411.224994@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-441275189; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232151566 18491 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2009 00:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Clemente , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 01:20:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LNyvT-0003yX-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:20:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNyuC-0007P2-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNyu7-0007Nz-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNyu6-0007Mf-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57037 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNyu6-0007MZ-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.158]:44923) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNyu5-0006PJ-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 34so802640yxf.66 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:19:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; bh=GYU/yxxhv2zy+aaWd0Eg15pEqSeze1cYnNwT+jDNVq8=; b=rvn/5w5L6ZE2bkpNTdG0+xbEHIv9EZoWvmLmzg/VSDNHMX5sYXH02H36vEHDzsT0j0 tk0PJxvMDfVulxvTMbz7kodwNrUn5QrA8sErGNiszY/syPbxzDSfcWMgI8x7TP7wZ15B 26xiH9MvTbtX4N21okKUbMl5ITEyyNr/l391k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:mime-version:subject :date:references:x-mailer; b=iLlo3PuRvXwGvbP3SulhGFKWJZy47vJdHZh79XZfvTHZHRyV4ATxXr6ndEpYvgzC61 q+i46wC3IE2xhReqjLtbCY51mvDua424MuLNZpwWtdMexI6z+nTCd39CL5QI8M70wr5g 3D0M7ivMu3rX2dR9U1GxcZIuqsRYBHlYU6VKM= Original-Received: by 10.100.197.3 with SMTP id u3mr2485108anf.64.1232151548261; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:19:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from r76h135.res.gatech.edu (r76h135.res.gatech.edu [128.61.76.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d35sm632592and.58.2009.01.16.16.19.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:19:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <18800.13052.960411.224994@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107918 Archived-At: --Apple-Mail-1-441275189 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Nick Roberts wrote: > Daniel Clemente writes: >> >> >> Hi, >> I think this is a very good opportunity to tackle the big projects >> which >> have been around for a long time and which would improve Emacs >> considerably. >> >> >> As examples: >> >> 1. Integrate CEDET into Emacs >> ----------------------------- >> This will ease support for other languages and integrate features >> like >> code completion, syntax checking, project handling, ... Some other >> tools >> like JDEE (Java support) or ECB could also be included. >> >> >> 2. Good multithreading support for Emacs >> ---------------------------------------- >> This is much wanted, specially for background processes like >> checking >> mail. It is necessary to profit from multicore processors, very >> common >> nowadays. There were already attempts to do this. >> ... > > > One SoC project involves a student working for about about twelve > weeks. I'm > not sure how much progress they could make with these tasks in this > time. I > would think it is better to have smaller clearly defined ones. > > -- > Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob As a student who participated in GSoC last year, I'd be thrilled to do work on Emacs. Personally, as far as more-accomplishable tasks go, I'd recommend having a couple geared towards bringing various ports (namely the Cocoa one) up to feature parity with the others (namely the Gtk one). 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