Eric Hall wrote:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:55:12PM +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote:
What kind of projects do you have in mind for the Summer of Code people to take on? The project I personally was planning on doing was an official GUI for MacPorts. Currently, there's only a non-free (in all senses of the word) frontend.
Apart from this, porting a major application: like the next big Gnome/KDE could also fit the bill. Surely, you guys must be having a TODO list? :) Additionally, any general *nix application that hasn't been ported to Darwin/OSX yet will qualify as a MacPorts project. There are tons of these out there, so a proposal could either contain porting several small applications or one big one; the coding time allowed is 3 months.
One very useful thing I can think of is getting dependencies to support variants - i.e. port 1 need 'port 2 +variantA'.
Yes, that would be good. A couple of other ideas: 1) Complete the work to have a single py-* portfile work for both Python 2.4 and 2.5. 2) Find a box to support compiling code on older OSes. Not everybody has a 10.3 box, but it would be good to have smoke tests on them and email the person who did the commit if a new Port broke on another older os. -- Blair Zajac, Ph.D. <blair@orcaware.com> Subversion training, consulting and support http://www.orcaware.com/svn/