Fwd: This year's gsoc

I'm forwarding to the list, so that anybody can tell me. :P

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aleix <aleixpolgmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2008 2:33 PM
Subject: This year's gsoc

Hi,
 I've been thinking if I should propose something for this
year's and
 the best idea I've had is to get the Kross support to work
on
 kdevplatform. I think it will be useful to be able to write
plugins on
 any language instead of being forced to use C++.

 The main benefit I see is, for example, to have cheaper
plugins with
 more features. (I'm thinking of projects like bzr or waf
that are
 already written in python and support it through python
will ease
 things a lot).

 I'm sending this e-mail to you so that you can tell me what
do you
 think of it and, in case you think it could be extended in
some way,
 tell me how could I improve the idea.

 Since giving the interface might not be enough for a full
GSoC I've
 thought that I could add into the proposal the bzr support,
since I've
 spoken a bit to some bzr devel's and they seem very
cooperative (not
 like the waf ones, btw).

 Thanks,

Aleix


 PS: I've sent this e-mail to the people I thought could be
interested,
 don't worry if you are not, anyway ;)

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On 19.03.08 22:42:48, Aleix wrote:
>  The main benefit I see is, for example, to have
cheaper plugins with
>  more features. (I'm thinking of projects like bzr or
waf that are
>  already written in python and support it through
python will ease
>  things a lot).

The main benefit I see is attracting more developers as
scripting
languages are _really cool_ and get a lot of attention.

>  I'm sending this e-mail to you so that you can tell me
what do you
>  think of it and, in case you think it could be
extended in some way,
>  tell me how could I improve the idea.

I think the idea is great! Scriptability is something that
gets asked
about on IRC and the list every now and then and while
KDevelop3 does
have some basic support it would be sometimes really nice to
write a
plugin in a scripting language.

>  Since giving the interface might not be enough for a
full GSoC I've
>  thought that I could add into the proposal the bzr
support, since I've
>  spoken a bit to some bzr devel's and they seem very
cooperative (not
>  like the waf ones, btw).

I also think its good to have a reference plugin in one of
the supported
languages, however you should prepare for some possible
problem when
implementing the general framework for scriptability. So
maybe making
the reference plugin something simple or making it an
"optional" thing
to be done if time is left would be a good idea.

Andreas

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