Hello, I'm following this list for quite a long time now, and I'm also really interested in contributing to etoile.
I'm especially interested in contributing to the UI framework (very good knowledge of OpenGL, C++/Qt(1,2), C/Gtk, ObjC/Cocoa a bit). I have once built etoile following the survivor guide and tried to locate the frameworks I'm interested in but I didn't found a description of etoile's architecture, which would be very helpful. It seems to me that Nesdah or Azalea are good starting points. I've also had a look at Jesse's mockups which are very promising. Apart from usual GNUStep/ObjC development guide, is there a specific etoile document ? Is etoile (I mean the svn trunk) always compiled on the current GNUStep (svn trunk also) ? I'll try to build it again and investigate a little more ;-) Thank you very much. (1) http://excalibur.inria.fr (2) http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/axel.html Ju. Jesse Ross wrote: >> Hello everyone, > > Welcome, Blair! > >> My name is Bair Yacishyn I am a relatively new and inexperienced >> programmer. > > No worries -- we've got people here from all skill levels. Some of us > only pretend to contribute code (like me!). > >> I am very interested in the Étoilé project and the direction it is >> going in and would like to slowly begin to contribute to the project. > > Well, like most projects, scratching your own itch is always a great > start. What kind of app would be useful to you? What do you want the > Etoile environment to do for you? Make something that you want to > use, and, chances are that if it's generic enough, other people might > want to use it too. > > Oh, and most of the developers here prefer code as modified-BSD or > LGPL (as opposed to GPL) licensed, as it makes reusing the code in > other parts of the project easier -- just something to keep in mind > when you're thinking about contributing. > >> Currently I am in the processes of learning Objective-C through >> "Programming in Objective-C" by Stephen Kochan. I was wondering if >> anyone had any advice or resources they could point me to for >> stepping into GNUstep and Étoilé developement. > > Assuming you're coming from an OS X background (as most of us in the > project have have), any of the Cocoa references (particularly older > ones, from around 10.0/10.1 -- most of the newest Cocoa developments > aren't in GNUstep yet) are helpful and you can play with them right > in OS X if you've installed the developer tools. If you can find any > of the OpenStep-specific reference books, those are really helpful too. > > If you've got a working GNUstep installation (and even if you're > testing this stuff on OS X), there are some really nice GNUstep > tutorials here: > > http://www.roard.com/docs/ > http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~kiselkov04/docu-demo/demo.html > > I'm sure others on the project can throw more good references your way! > >> I look forward to joining this community. Thanks. > > We look forward to having you! Thank _you_! > > > J. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
