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author | Jeremie Koenig <jk@jk.fr.eu.org> | 2011-05-24 17:46:58 +0200 |
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committer | Jeremie Koenig <jk@jk.fr.eu.org> | 2011-05-24 17:58:08 +0200 |
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diff --git a/user/jkoenig/gsoc2011_proposal/discussion.mdwn b/user/jkoenig/gsoc2011_proposal/discussion.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 0131d8d5..00000000 --- a/user/jkoenig/gsoc2011_proposal/discussion.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,180 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -Some [[tschwinge]] comments regarding your proposal. Which is very good, if I -may say so again! :-) - -Of course, everyone is invited to contribute here! - -I want to give the following methodology a try, instead of only having -email/IRC discussions -- for the latter are again and again showing a tendency -to be dumped and deposited into their respective archives, and be forgotten -there. Of course, email/IRC discussions have their usefulness too, so we're -not going to replace them totally. For example, for conducting discussions -with a bunch of people (who may not even be following these pages here), email -(or, as applicable, the even more interactive IRC) will still be the medium of -choice. (And then, the executive summary should be posted here, or -incorporated into your proposal.) - -Also, if you disagree with this suggested procedure right away, or at some -later point begin to feel that this thing doesn't work out, or simply takes too -much time (I don't think so: writing emails takes time, too), just say so, and -we can reconsider. - -Of course, as this wiki is a passive medium rather than an active one as IRC -and email are, it is fine to send notices like: *I have updated the wiki page, -please have a look*. - -One idea is that your proposal evolves alongside with the ongoing work, and -represents (in more or less detail) what has been done and what will be done. -Also, we can hopefully use parts of it for documentation purposes, or as -recipes for similar work (enabling other programming languages on the Hurd, for -example). - -For this, I suggest the following procedure: as applicable, you can either -address any comments in here (for example, if they're wrong :-), or if they -require further discussion; think: *email discussion*), or you can address them -directly in your propoal and remove the comments from here at the same time -(think: *bug fix*). - -Generally, you can assume that for things I didn't comment on (within some -reasonable timeframe/upon asking me again) that I'm fine with them. Otherwise, -I might say: *I don't like this as is, but I'll need more time to think about -it.* - -There is also a possibility that parts of your proposal will be split off; in -cases where we think they're valuable to follow, but not at this time. (As you -know, your proposal is not really a trivial one, so it may just be too much for -one person's summer.) Such bits could be moved to [[open_issues]] pages, -either new ones or existing ones, as applicable. - - -# POSIX Threads Signal Semantics - - * Great! [[tschwinge]] had a brief look, and should have a deeper one. - - * If [[jkoenig]] thinks it's mature enough: should ask Samuel to test this - (that is, only the refactoring patches for starters?) on the buildds. - - * Then: should ask Roland to review. - - * Documentations bits should probably be moved to [[glibc/signal]]. - - -## libthreads (cthreads) Integration - - * [[tschwinge]] suggests to leave them as-is? - - -## [[libpthread]] integration - - * To be done. - - -# Java - - * [[tschwinge]] has to read about RMI and CORBA. - - -# Joe-E - - * For later. - - -# GCJ - - * [[tschwinge]] has the feeling that Java in GCC (that is, GCJ) is mostly - dead? (True?) - - * Thus perhaps not too much effort should be spent with it. - - If the POSIX threads signal semantics makes it going, then great, otherwise - we should get a feeling what else is missing. - - -# OpenJDK - - * All in all, [[tschwinge]] has the feeling that a working OpenJDK will be - more useful/powerful than GCJ. - - * We need to get a feeling how difficult such an OS port will be. - - * [[jkoenig]] suggests OpenJDK 6 -- should we directly go for version 7 - instead? - - * What are the differences (regarding the OS port) between the two - versions? Or this there something even more recent to be worked upon, - for new OS ports? - - * Perhaps the different versions' OS port specific stuff is not at - all very different, so that both v6 and v7 could be done? - - * They seem to have a rather heavy-weight process for such projects: confer - <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2011-January/000092.html>, - for example. Do we need this, too? - - -# Eclipse - -OK for testing -- but I'd very much hope that it *just works* as soon as we -provide the required Java platform. - - -# Java Bindings - - -## Design Principles - - * Generally ack. - - -### MIG - - * Hacking [[microkernel/mach/MIG]] shouldn't be too difficult. - - * (Unless you want to make MIG's own code (that is, not the generated - code, but MIG itself) look a bit more nice, too.) ;-) - - * There are also alternatives to MIG. If there is interest, the following - could be considered: - - * FLICK ([[!GNU_Savannah_task 5723]]). [[tschwinge]] has no idea yet if - there would be any benefits over MIG, like better modularity (for the - backends)? If we feel like it, we could spend a little bit of time on - this. - - * For [[microkernel/Viengoos]], Neal has written a RPC stub generator - entirely in C Preprocessor macros. While this is obviously not - directly applicable, perhaps we can get some ideas from it. - - * Anything else that would be worth having a look at? (What are other - microkernels using?) - - -### `mach_msg` - - * Seems like the right approach to [[tschwinge]], but hasn't digested all the - pecularities yet. Will definitely need more time. - - -# GSoC Site Discussion - - * Discussion items from - <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/jkoenig/1> - should be copied here: - - * technical bits (obviously); - - * also the *why do we want Java bindings* reasoning; - - * CLISP findings should also be documented somewhere permanently. - - * We should probaby open up a *languages for Hurd* section on the web - pages ([[!taglink open_issue_documentation]]). |