Re: GSoC pages have been revised ...
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>wrote:
... please check them. Suggestions very welcome (the writing sucks
--
you'd think they were written by a professor or lawyer or someone like
that). More ideas would be welcome, too. Packages might be a good
place to look for ideas (although just doing GNU syncs is pretty
straightforward and mechanical in many cases, so those may not be
great GSoC projects).
http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/GSoC.html (policies and evaluations page)
http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/GSoC2013.html (ideas page)
Steve
Here's another idea. Our support for sound is not great, as I discovered
when I did the ALSA port (which I recently discovered is broken on modern
Linuxes, by the way; it just makes an annoying buzzing sound). To play a
sound file, we have to read the file into memory, taking care not to
corrupt the file with character conversions, then feed the bytes in memory
to the appropriate sound library, even if the library is fully capable of
reading the file itself. The support for not blocking while the sound
plays doesn't always work. The whole audio support thing could use a
makeover.
I've got a few half-baked ideas that I'll try to bake more completely and
propose. I'm leaving town for a week in just a couple of hours, so this
will probably have to wait until I return.
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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