Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
On 4/16/06, Rene Rivera <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote:
Jeff Garland wrote:
On 4/15/06, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
We'll need to submit a request and such:
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html So... I'm curious. Are you going to do it? :-) Personally I'm thinking I would be smart not to take on another project. I have a cronic habit of getting over-booked (is there a 12 step program for
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:40:07 +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote this problem ;-) Yes, but by the 6th step you can't afford to pay the assistants ;-)
-- anyway, I'm hoping we will be able to support a number of projects. Actually, I'm a little suprised there hasn't been more response to your post. I'm starting a discussion amoungst the moderators about how we want to organize to take this on. I'm putting together a list of Boost.Build related projects that I would be willing to mentor. So if you want you can include me in that discussion :-)
Is this list what somebody (you?) put in the wiki? It'd be interesting to see who is available to mentor each item.
I think you figured the answer to that one by now ;-) But I provisionally listed myself on those two as the mentor. The administrator has the final say on that though :-)
Anyway, the "Configure" Boost.Build project caught my eye. Which could be the requirements for such a tool?
I also added a few requirements to that one item. I'll expand the other one a bit later.
I expect it'd need to run natively under Windows and Unix-based systems, right? Which language would it need to be written in?
It's Boost.Build, so you'd have to read up on what I mean by that :-) Short answer it's the Jam interpreted language which is natively compiled cross-platform interpreter program with possible hooks into Python.
Maybe C++ is the obvious answer, but then there is a "bootstrapping" problem (you might need to configure the tool to build the tool successfully).
Boost.Jam already knows how to bootstrap itself. Boost.Jam would play the role that Bourne SH plus M4 play in Autoconf.
Just saying this because it'd be good to have as much details as possible for each proposed project.
Of course. It just takes time to add those details :-) And eventually they have to be added to the Google management website for SoC. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo