Re: More GSoC project ideas.
On Apr 8, 2013, at 05:53 , Steve Youngs <steve(a)sxemacs.org> wrote:
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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.
I've got one suggestion if you're (still) collecting ideas for GSoC:
The current package system uses efs, which uses ftp, via an external process. The
interface to ftp has some fairly heavy assumptions on the actual version of ftp being
used, and for some platforms, these assumptions do not hold. Even worse, some platforms do
not even come with an ftp client.
My suggestion would be to allow the package system to use http; this could be done without
using any external processes at all, by setting up network connections, firing off HTTP
requests and parsing response documents.
The main problem with doing this as GSoC task may well be that it is too simple...
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