Daniel's proposal has been accepted into Google Summer of Code. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5083550004019200
Fred and I have registered as mentors. Congratulations and welcome! On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Ferreira (theiostream) <bnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > My name is Daniel Ferreira and I'd like to spend a Google Summer of > Code implementing the proposal to "port WebKit to GNUstep" (or, most > likely, a subset of it) as announced on the GNUstep ideas website, and > try to get the GNUstep browser issue closer to a solution. However, > aside from this thread > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2007-03/msg00314.html > > and this more recent one: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2015-06/msg00108.html > > there is almost zero detail implementation-wise of how this goal would > be attained, and only architectural discussions about how to approach > the web browser problem. Despite being a little late to the party, I'd > like some help to be able to craft a decent proposal (or at least > figure out how to approach the problem). > > I spent the last two days setting up a build environment for both > GNUstep and WebKit, and I hoped I would be able to grasp the dimension > of the effort by trying to build it with OSX as a target and see how > many linking errors I got when trying to build it on top of the > GNUstep libraries. However, it complains about the lack of frameworks > that I don't believe are even in the GNUstep roadmap (Accelerate, > AudioToolbox, IOKit), so I think I'm following a wrong approach here. > > That said, I'd really appreciate an (updated) explanation of what are > the current obstacles to getting that port done, or what can I > do/build to get a better understanding of it :) > > Also: despite the extremely short schedule, I'm totally up to writing > a small patch to GNUstep or something if you'd like some sort of proof > that I can go around the project. > > About me: I'm a Brazilian student and I'll start college at Stanford > University this fall. I've done system modifications in the iOS > jailbreaking community ("tweaks") and some apps, and during that time > I could get some pretty decent experience with Core* Apple APIs > (although I really look forward to learn more about their internals > and how they could be implemented) as well as Objective-C. I've also > written a bunch of C/C++ code for my employer (a payment processing > company) and some on github.com/theiostream. Again, I'm really > interesting on how these internals are (or can be) implemented, and > that's why I got so interested in this project. > > (I am sending this e-mail to both the summer-of-code and the > discuss-gnustep lists separately. I'm sorry if anyone gets this twice, > but I'm really unsure regarding in what channel this will reach > someone.) > > Thanks, and hoping I can get some answers in time, > -- Daniel. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > discuss-gnus...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev