Summer Of Code 2006 - Revision history

IOOI at 21:13, 8 March 2009

2009-03-08T21:13:10Z

Qmathe: Removed myself from mentors list since I submitted applications as a student (it isn't allowed to be a mentor at the same time)

2006-05-10T13:38:11Z

Removed myself from mentors list since I submitted applications as a student (it isn't allowed to be a mentor at the same time)

Cbv: Link to WebKit/WebCore

2006-05-03T08:59:32Z

Link to WebKit/WebCore

Cbv: Some more fixes

2006-04-26T20:29:56Z

Some more fixes

Aperez: More updates on NSDatePicker, NSTextTable, Predicates entries (done by Quentin Mathé)

2006-04-26T16:11:26Z

More updates on NSDatePicker, NSTextTable, Predicates entries (done by Quentin Mathé)

Aperez: More on NSError and update PDFKit related stuff (done by Quentin Mathé)

2006-04-26T16:04:01Z

More on NSError and update PDFKit related stuff (done by Quentin Mathé)

Aperez: More on API comparison (done by Quentin Mathé)

2006-04-26T15:22:55Z

More on API comparison (done by Quentin Mathé)

Aperez: Improve formatting and make clearer NSTreeController situation (done by Quentin Mathé)

2006-04-26T15:16:32Z

Improve formatting and make clearer NSTreeController situation (done by Quentin Mathé)

Aperez: Removed NSIndexPath (done by Quentin Mathé)

2006-04-26T15:06:15Z

Removed NSIndexPath (done by Quentin Mathé)

Cbv: /* Summer Of Code 2006 */ fixed typo

2006-04-26T14:13:52Z

Summer Of Code 2006: fixed typo

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 - David Wetzel (dave at turbocat dot de) could mentor GSWeb related projects
 - Adam Fedor (backup mentor)
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 Nicolas Roard

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-Here are some ideas:
+Here are some ideas -- Feel free to add more
 * '''Bindings, KVO support'''
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 * '''Porting'''
-** Port WebCore (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support)
+** Port [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html WebKit] (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support)
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 ** Create a AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb
 == Note ==

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 * '''Porting'''
-** Port WebCore to GNUstep using GCC 4.1
+** Port WebCore (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support)
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 ** GNUstepWeb (add script language support, etc)
 ** Finish input server [http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/gui/branches/kazunobu_input_management/ support]
-** Compare current API with Tiger API, indicates which are missing, and the status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;) The best would to have a tool which parse every headers (both from Cocoa and GNUstep) and output differences in HTML (XML probably too by the way). This would summarize missing classes, missing or partial implementation methods in existing classes and GNUstep only extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
+** Compare current API with Tiger's API, indicate which classes are missing, and summarize the current status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;) The best would be to have a tool which parses all headers (both from Cocoa and GNUstep) and outputs differences in HTML (XML probably too by the way). This would summarize missing classes, missing or partially implementated methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.

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 ** PDFKit wrapper implementation around the Freedesktop Poppler library, probably by wrapping PopplerKit (used in ViewPDF/Vindaloo, a GNUstep PDF Viewer). Afterwards, providing support in AppKit trough NSPDFImageRep would be great.
 *** Here is a link to [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ PopplerKit/Vindaloo] that works well, but is currently lacking a maintainer.
-** The Text System should be cleaned, profiled and finished. Many methods in NSLayoutManager are unfinished or unimplemented, so we currently cannot tweak the test system as much as the one provided by Cocoa. (Quentin Mathe)
+** Text System should be cleaned, profiled and finished. Many methods in NSLayoutManager are unfinished or unimplemented, so we currently cannot tweak the test system as much as the one provided by Cocoa. (Quentin Mathe)
-** We need NSTypeSetter, NSGlyphStorage, NSGlyphInfo, and NSGlyphGenerator implementations. If NSTypeSetter and NSLayoutManager were implemented, I (Quentin Mathe) would use them in Etoile.
+** We need NSTypeSetter, NSGlyphStorage, NSGlyphInfo, and NSGlyphGenerator implementations. If NSTypeSetter and NSLayoutManager were implemented, they would probably be used in Etoile. (Quentin Mathe)
-** NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock implementations would also bring the GNUstep text system in line with that of Cocoa as of Panther. NSTextList could be useful to build a powerful word processor. (Quentin Mathe)
+** NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock implementations would also bring the GNUstep text system in line with that of Cocoa as of Mac OS 10.4. The classes could be useful to build a powerful word processor. (Quentin Mathe)
 ** Finish once and for all the NSTableView class, and have it work properly with any kind of cells. This is a big job, but sorely needed (Quentin Mathe)
-** The NSOpenGL Classes could be improved, made compatible with current Cocoa implementations, and further tested (Quentin Mathe)
+** NSOpenGL Classes could be improved, made compatible with current Cocoa implementations, and further tested (Quentin Mathe)
 ** NSBitmapImageRep formats: Currenly, we support only reading and writing for TIFF, read-only for GIF, JPEG, PNG, PNM. We would like to have write support for these NSBitmapImageRep categories. Afterwards, SVG reading, then write support, would be nice. (Quentin Mathe)
-** NSDatePicker, NSLevelIndicator (and obligatory -Cell) implementations.
+** NSDatePicker, NSLevelIndicator (and obligatory companion NSCell subclasses) implementations.
-** Updating NSDocument architecture with numerous modern methods which were introduced in 10.4. In 10.4, Apple deprecated many methods in NSDocument in favor of a more flexible and well-designed implementation.
+** Updating NSDocument architecture with numerous modern methods which were introduced in Mac OS 10.4. In 10.4, Apple deprecated many methods in NSDocument in favor of a more flexible and well-designed implementation.
 ** NSFormatter isn't working very well at this time (Quentin Mathe)
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 ** NSDateComponents implementation.
 ** NSCalendar implementation.
-** Finish the NSPredicate implementation. This was mostly done by Quentin Mathe, but is untested. The most important part is not done, which is to write a parser and lexer for the custom language used by NSPredicate. Also needed for this are NSComparisonPredicate, NSCompoundPredicate, and NSExpression implementations.
+** Finish the NSPredicate implementation. This was partially done by Quentin Mathe, but is untested. The most important part is not done, which is to write a parser and lexer for the custom language used by NSPredicate. Also needed for this are NSComparisonPredicate, NSCompoundPredicate, and NSExpression implementations.
 ** Test the NSXMLParser Cocoa class wrapper around GSXML, written by Richard-Frith Macdonald. Once this is thoroughly tested, NSXMLDocument, NSXMLDTD, and NSXMLDTDNode, and NSXMLElement, and NSXMLNode implementations may be useful for compatibility.

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 * '''AppKit'''
-** A PDFKit wrapper implementation around the Freedesktop Poppler library, which is also used in ViewPDF, a GNUstep PDF Viewer. Afterwards, having a built-in NSImageRep for   NSBitmapImageRep would be great.
+** PDFKit wrapper implementation around the Freedesktop Poppler library, probably by wrapping PopplerKit (used in ViewPDF/Vindaloo, a GNUstep PDF Viewer). Afterwards, providing support in AppKit trough NSPDFImageRep would be great.
-*** there is [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ PopplerKit/Vindaloo] which works well, but is currently lacking a maintainer.
+*** Here is a link to [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ PopplerKit/Vindaloo] that works well, but is currently lacking a maintainer.
 ** The Text System should be cleaned, profiled and finished. Many methods in NSLayoutManager are unfinished or unimplemented, so we currently cannot tweak the test system as much as the one provided by Cocoa. (Quentin Mathe)
 ** We need NSTypeSetter, NSGlyphStorage, NSGlyphInfo, and NSGlyphGenerator implementations. If NSTypeSetter and NSLayoutManager were implemented, I (Quentin Mathe) would use them in Etoile.
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 * '''Base'''
-** NSError improvements to allow better user messages. 10.4's NSDocument uses this.
+** NSError related improvements to allow better user messages (with the new error responder chain). In Mac OS 10.4, NSDocument version uses this.
 ** NSLocale-compatible locale implementation could be useful for internationalization.
 ** NSDateComponents implementation.
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 Feel free to add other ideas !
 == Note ==

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 * '''Bindings, KVO support'''
 ** We need NSController, NSArrayController, NSObjectController, NSTreeController, NSUserDefaultController, NSValueTransformer implementations. NSSortDescriptor has already been implemented by Saso Kiselkov. The current NSTreeController is known to be buggy, as Apple rushed the release of this Class in 10.4. It is widely believed that these shortcomings will be fixed in Leopard (10.5), so perhaps we should wait a while.
-** Key Value Observing implentation was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald, and is only about 80% finished. Needs completion and testing.
+** Key Value Observing implementation was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald, and is only about 80% finished. Needs completion and testing.
 * '''Porting'''