[Tcl-soc2008] Fwd: [TCLCORE] Google Summer of Code Results

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ma...>]

FYI, see below for the announcement about Tcl/Tk's great result in  
the 2008 Google Summer of Code slot allocation.

for more details on the GSoC Tcl/Tk projects see
	http://code.google.com/soc/2008/tcl/about.html

the Printing, Fuse and DTrace projects will be of particular interest  
to Mac users (macfuse is available for 10.4 and later c.f. http:// 
code.google.com/p/macfuse/ and DTrace is built into 10.5).

also note that most of the GSoC projects for MacPorts are Tcl related  
as well:
	http://code.google.com/soc/2008/macports/about.html
the MacPorts framework project should be particularly interesting.

Cheers,

Daniel

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** Daniel A. Steffen                   **
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Matthew M. Burke" <ma...@bl...>
> Date: 22 April 2008 20:30:34
> To: tcl...@li...
> Subject: [TCLCORE] Google Summer of Code Results
>
> All,
>
> Google has announced the student proposals which have been accepted.
> Following are brief descriptions of the  9 Tcl projects that will take
> place this summer.  Student projects will be worked on roughly 40
> hours/week between May 26th and August 18th.
>
>  From now until May 26th we will be working with the students to help
> them get acquainted with the Tcl community.  To that end, the students
> will be posting email introducing themselves and I encourage you to  
> help
> make them feel welcome, help them get grounded in our code base and
> styles of doing things, etc.
>
>
> Also, of course, don't hesitate to send them suggestions, requests,
> (constructive) criticism on their projects. I will post later on
> information for how you can track their progress over the summer.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Matt
> Tcl/Tk 2008 Google Summer of Code Coordinator
>
>
>
>
> Project Descriptions
>
> Loading Shared Libraries from Memory and/or Tcl Channels
> Student: Daniel Hans
> Mentor: Andreas Kupries
>
> The main objective of this project is to provide an enhanced mechanism
> of loading shared libraries from Tcl Virtual
> Filesystems by Tcl programs.
>
> ---
>
> Tcl FUSE Language Binding
> Student: Alexandros Stergiakis
> Mentor: Stephen Huntley
>
> The goal of this project is to produce a fully-functional Tcl language
> binding to FUSE virtual filesystem kernel module,
> making it possible to create FUSE filesystems using Tcl. It will  
> ensure
> the binding works on all or most operating systems
> supported by FUSE, and provide detailed document the result.
>
> ---
>
> TclDTrace
> Student: Remigiusz Modrzejewski
> Mentor: Daniel A. Steffen
>
> The main objective of this project is designing and implementing a Tcl
> binding to the libdtrace API. This would allow all of
> gathering user input, compiling, running and processing the results  
> of D
> scripts inside Tcl.
>
> ---
>
> Audio Input and Output Library and Extension
> Student: Mohamed Abderaouf Bencheraiet
> Mentor: Youness El Alaoui
>
> This project will consist in merging libao's interface
> (http://xiph.org/ao) with libao2's drivers (http://mplayerhq.hu)  
> and make
> it into a single, standalone library, as well as creating an audio  
> input
> equivalent and writing a Tcl extension to wrap the library,
> thus providing the Tcl community with a new, more powerful audio input
> and audio output library. This will allow the creation
> of new real-time audio processing Tcl applications.
>
> ---
>
> Tcl/Tk Printing Support
> Student: Blicharski Krzysztof
> Mentor: Clif Flynt
>
> I would like to take up the "printing support" project. As I consulted
> with the mentor, it consists of four major parts:
>
> 1) Convert the contents of the Tcl/Tk application to a printable  
> format.
> This may be Postscript, PDF, Gif, or printer commands.
>
> 2) Transmit the intermediate format data to a printer, interacting  
> with
> whatever facilities are offered by the operating system.
>
> 3) Code layer interfaces for application developers. This could  
> include
> adding print subcommands to all Tk widgets, or a print
> subsystem capable of understanding the contents of all widgets.
>
> 4) User layer interface that a developer can include in an  
> pplication to
> give users access to printing.
>
> ---
>
> Update Tk Test System Student: Ania Pawelczyk
> Mentor: Jeff Hobbes
>
> The tcltest package provides several utility commands useful in the
> construction of test suites for code instrumented to be
> run by evaluation of Tcl commands. Notably the built-in commands of  
> the
> Tcl library itself are tested by a test suite
> using the tcltest package.
>
> The Tk test system still uses primarily tcltest v1, and would benefit
> from an update to tcltest v2 and a full reexamination of
> out-dated tests. The test suite should gain independence from the
> system's settings that test is made on. This all leads to
> improvement of testing capabilities.
>
> ---
>
> Graph Manipulations
> Student: Alejandro Eduardo Cruz Paz
> Mentor: Steve Landers
>
> The tcllib package provides functionality for creating and  
> manipulating
> graph data structures in Tcl/Tk. Although the
> package is fairly flexible (e.g. allows attaching arbitrary attributes
> to graphs, arcs, and nodes), there are a number of useful
> functions that could be added such as finding connected components,
> determine (shortest) path between two nodes, etc.
>
> ---
>
> A Business Rule Management System based on the high-level object
> oriented scripting language XOTcl
> Student: Franz Wirl
> Mentor: Gustaf Neumann
>
> High level object oriented scripting languages like XOTcl can be
> perfectly used to implement Charles Forgy's Rete algorithm.
> An algorithm that has been developed and tested to match between more
> than a thousand patterns and objects. Implementing this
> fast algorithm into/with XOTcl will provide a fast and dynamic Rete
> library in XOTcl.
>
> An object oriented implementation allows a natural expression of  
> rules.
> Object oriented interfaces to the algorithm improve
> its flexibility and allows usage in many different domains.
>
> ---
>
> AOLserver-GD Integration
> Student: Matthew Gagen
> Mentor: Matthew Burke
>
> The goal of this project would be to get the latest version of nsgd
> working with AOLserver 4.x, further rationalize its API,
> allow sharing of graphics among server threads, build graphing and
> sparkline packages using this module and
> use of autoconf to improve the build process.  Further, I will
> investigate the use of SWIG in order to more easily track
> improvements in GD.