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-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn29
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn13
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn9
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn9
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..26f5a91b
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+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+[[!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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="Porting Google Go (GCC: gccgo)"]]
+
+<!-- See also open_issues/gccgo. -->
+
+The goal of this project is to make the [Google Go programming
+language](http://golang.org/) available on GNU/Hurd in its [[GCC]] *gccgo*
+implementation.
+
+Presumably less work will be needed on the language's frontend itself, but
+rather on the supporting libraries.
+
+Apart from a solid knowledge of the [[POSIX]] API, working knowledge of the
+Google Go programming language is a must. Some Hurd knowledge will have to be
+acquired while working on the project.
+
+Possible mentors: Ian Lance Taylor: gccgo bits, [[Thomas Schwinge
+(tschwinge)|tschwinge]]: Hurd bits.
+
+Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing *gccgo* from working on the Hurd.
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
index 97a4a552..f78c1f64 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-[[!meta title="Porting GNAT"]]
+[[!meta title="Porting GNAT (GCC)"]]
+
+<!-- See also open_issues/gnat. -->
The GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) isn't available for the Hurd so far. There are
also a number of other Debian packages depending on GNAT, and thus not
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT, and maybe
fixing a few other problems. Good knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd
knowledge will have to be acquired while working on the project.
-Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
+Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi), [[Thomas Schwinge
+(tschwinge)|tschwinge]].
Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing GNAT from working on the Hurd.
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
index c8a02390..6b36c50d 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="Bindings to Other Programming Languages"]]
+<!-- See also open_issues/gccgo, open_issues/gnat, open_issues/perl, and
+open_issues/python. -->
+
The main idea of the Hurd design is giving users the ability to easily
modify/extend the system's functionality ([[extensible_system|extensibility]]).
This is done by creating [[filesystem_translators|hurd/translator]] and other
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn
index 34e877ab..a51393f1 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="Improving Perl or Python Support"]]
+<!-- See also open_issues/perl and open_issues/python. -->
+
Perl and Python are available on the Hurd, but there are quite a lot of test suite
failures. These could be caused by problems in the system-specific
implementation bits of Perl/Python, and/or shortcomings in the actual system