More GSoC project ideas.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message Hey Everyone! I heard that you guys were applying to be a mentoring organisation in this year's Google Summer of Code. That's awesome, and we all (SXEmacs) hope it works out great for you. I got together with my guys to see if there was anything that we could do to help out. Not sure if there is much we could do really, but we did come up with a number of ideas for possible projects. New Packages: ------------ o A decent git interface. I've heard about this thing called "magit" that folks like John Wiegley swear by. I had a quick look at it once and it was very GNU/Emacs-centric. o Sharing content on social media. For example, you read something awesome in one of your RSS feeds in Gnus, it'd be cool if you could post a link to the article on Twitter or Facebook directly from *Emacs. o An OAuth package. I think GNU/Emacs has this already, so port. Oh, and this one would be needed for the previous anyway. :-) o A CalDav package so I can sync my Google Calendar with my calendar in SXEmacs. o A spreadsheet package. o A Dropbox client. The Tramp folks are thinking of doing something with this. o An Evernote package. Save buffers, files, regions to Evernote. Also view/edit existing notes. o An Mplayer client/skin/player to watch and control video from mplayer embedded into an XEmacs buffer. Core Enhancements: ----------------- o Convert to/from various open document formats. o LLVM compiled elisp, instead of bytecode. I had to ask what "LLVM" was, so for the benefit of anyone else that might not know, the answer I got was: It's stands for "Low Level Virtual Machine", but the neat feature of it is that there is a whole set of tools that then allow you to do just in time compile and optimization. Port From SXEmacs: ----------------- (a lot of this I simply yanked directly from our website) o FFI o OpenSSL support o Enhanced Number Types. Where we took XEmacs' "bignum" to the next level. :-) Math is not really my thing, so have a look at... http://www.sxemacs.org/docs/lispref/Enhanced-Number-Types.html o Support for 256 colour XTerms and compatible terminals, and much improved TTY font-locking. o Embeddable keyboard macros (1a on JWZ' wishlist) o Our Audio support. A couple parts of it are currently broken because the ffmpeg folks moved the goal posts again (don't they always?). o Network Server Sockets. #'open-network-server-stream o Cached and compiled regular expressions. You can get significant speed ups from exhaustive caching of compiled regexps. o Double Linked Lists. Unlike ordinary lists that only have hooks into the head of the list (think car, cdr), a doubly linked list has hooks into both the head and the tail of the list. This means you can operate on both ends of a doubly linked list. You can also traverse a dllist in both directions, tail-wards and head-wards. Ordinary lists only allow for tail-wards traversal. o Skip Lists. We have a basic implementation of Pugh's skip lists. Their efficiency is overwhelming when compared to alists or plists. They also perform better on insertion and removal than large hash-tables (due to the resizing/rehashing which takes place). They can be created almost as fast as lisp lists and thus beat hash-tables there, too. o Bloom Filters. Bloom filters are a hash-table like data structure with the purpose of performing membership tests. Unlike hash-tables bloom filters do not need to be resized despite the fact that they can carry an arbitrarily large number of objects. o Recursive directory traversal. SXEmacs has a recursive implementation of #'directory-files called #'directory-files-recur. It is amazingly fast, sometimes even faster than GNU find(1). OK, then, good luck with it all, guys. I really do hope that amazing things come of this. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | SXEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------------&lt;steve(a)sxemacs.org&gt;---| _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta