Re: About GSoC 2013

[Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> (Please follow-up to bug-guix@gnu.org if you don’t mind.)
>
> That still holds.

CC bug-guix.

>>> Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Having used Emacs for almost 4 years, I am a Chinese student in Beijing,
>>>> and I have experience with Emacs Lisp.  I'd like to work on Guix under
>>>> the GNU umbrella for GSoC 2013, especially this project:
>>>>
>>>> * Package management from Emacs
>>>>   The goal of this project is to write a complete package management
>>>>   user interface for use in GNU Emacs. The UI would provide the same
>>>>   functionality as the guix package command, but using an interface
>>>>   similar to that of package.el.
>>>
>>> Excellent!  :-)
>>>
>>> I see you’ve already proposed other ideas for work on Emacs.  Did you
>>> make up your mind as to which of those you’d prefer?
>>
>> Sorry but I prefer the VC one.  Stefan (the Emacs maintainer) said that
>> he would welcome such a project and would be happy to mentor.  I send
>> him some mails but there is no reply.
>
> OK, no problem.
>
>>> For this project, you may have to write a bit of Scheme too, which is
>>> the implementation language of Guix.  How do you feel about it?
>>
>> I do not want to I dive too much to become a Guile or Scheme expert, but
>> I'd be glad to learn some Scheme.  Do you have some learning resources
>> to recommend?
>
> There’s the famous “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”
> (SICP), and others listed at <http://schemers.org/>.

Good.  I know this tutorial years ago, but I haven't read it yet.  I'll
start to read it later.

>>> Besides, have you looked at Guix?
>>
>> Not yet.  I'll download and build one later.
>
> Great.
>
>>>> Looking forward to a reply so I can start working as soon as possible,
>>>> thank you.  (I'm not familiar with package.el, tho.)
>>>
>>> From a quick look, the starting points would be ‘package-menu-mode’ or
>>> ‘tabulated-list-mode’, which greatly simplify the UI part.
>>
>> BTW have you read my proposal?
>> https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/xfq/6001
>
> Hmm no, I don’t have an account setup yet.  Could you email it to me?

Sure, I'll send it to you later.

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Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/