Re: [fltk.development] Svn access to repositories - non http

2010-03-11 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
Does anyone know if the fltk repo's are accessible other than by http? I'm using https: Forgot to follow-up on this: For the record, switching to https has worked for me and I can access the repos once more, bypassing the blocking of webdav on the http proxy. So that works - at least

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Duncan Gibson
Should we apply as mentors? It would be brilliant if someone had the time to mentor a student because participating would: (a) be good publicity and raise the general awareness of fltk; (b) add new functionality or a new set of widgets. But it raises two questions: who has the time to be a

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
Should we apply as mentors? Can any of us commit the time to do the mentoring right? In the past I have been peripherally involved in a few projects that did GSoC, and what I saw was that, on the projects that Did It Right, the mentors put quite a lot of time and effort in, the students

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread imacarthur
On 11 Mar 2010, at 18:51, Matthias Melcher wrote: I would be willing to put the time in, but I'd also have to rely on the other Core Devs. I'd suggest a special mailing list for a possible participant. I'd help out where I could, but I can't promise to commit the time; things are a bit

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Matthias Melcher
On 11.03.2010, at 22:11, imacarthur wrote: On 11 Mar 2010, at 18:51, Matthias Melcher wrote: I would be willing to put the time in, but I'd also have to rely on the other Core Devs. I'd suggest a special mailing list for a possible participant. I'd help out where I could, but I

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
On 11.03.2010, at 19:52, Matthias Melcher wrote: I would be willing to put the time in, but I'd also have to rely on the other Core Devs. I'd suggest a special mailing list for a possible participant. I won't be available as a mentor (sorry, this would be too time consuming for me), but I'd

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Duncan Gibson
Should we apply as mentors? So here are my suggestions: [lots of good ideas snipped] Another idea that struck me would be to investigate FLTK and SWIG, and whether it would be possible to automate the generation of other language bindings for FLTK. Maybe pyFLTK already does this? If not,

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
On 11.03.2010, at 23:04, Matthias Melcher wrote: On 11.03.2010, at 22:11, imacarthur wrote: - Fl_Device for OpenGL Seems good - but can a student do it while Manolo and Albrecht are still working through the Fl_Device/Printer bits? Yes, you may be right. Oh, no! This wouldn't be a

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
On 12.03.2010, at 00:41, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: (2) redesign Fl_Shared_Image. I wrote a proposal a while ago, but this was before we started 1.3, and it would break ABI compatibility. I could dig and see what I had - I do still think that this would be useful, especially for point (1)

Re: [fltk.development] Google summer of code

2010-03-11 Thread Matthias Melcher
On 12.03.2010, at 00:41, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: On 11.03.2010, at 23:04, Matthias Melcher wrote: On 11.03.2010, at 22:11, imacarthur wrote: - Fl_Device for OpenGL Seems good - but can a student do it while Manolo and Albrecht are still working through the Fl_Device/Printer bits?