Great! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help, David
> On 4 May 2017, at 17:35, Ivan Vučica <i...@vucica.net> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev