Re: PHP-GNOME and the Summer of Code

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm not going into the depth of the SoC Proposel, however when I hear "Gnome" I fear about the support for the Win32 platform. In fact, the only reason for me and I'm sure for some others also, is the availability on Win32. So my only fear with this direction is that it widens the gap between PHP-GTKs future and Win32. People in the past hacked up things for Gnome under Win32, but as seen, there was nothing which still carries fruits ... I know what is means to develop PHP-GTK itself, I've had my expirience with the opengl bindings and others, but even I had to face it that customers still don't run linux in reality. So, just my 2c .. - - Markus Anant Narayanan wrote: > Hi all! > > If you are not already aware, I had submitted a proposal as a part of > Google's Summer of Code to PHP, that concerned the development of PHP > bindings for GNOME. > > http://www.kix.in/soc/php-gnome.pdf > > (Erm, that document is a sub-set of my original proposal to GNOME and > hence you might be interested only in the deliverables section to see > which libraries I intend to wrap) > > A bad combination of events, led to the rejection of that proposal by > me, although I did not intend to, in spite of the fact that Andrei was > prepared to mentor it. The project has therefore been shelved from > Google's program. > > However, I would still very much like to work on it, in fact, that is > what I have been trying to do with my rampant extension making :) > > Anyway, now that we have Andrei's approval, I can start work on it. Any > help in any form would be much appreciated: Comments, Suggestions, > Criticisms, Documentation or Development. > > Do have a look at the proposal and let me know what you think. Once you > are convinced that we go ahead with this mini-project, we have to decide > on a technical issue: > > Do we develop the extensions by simply adding directories to ext? > > =OR= > > Try and develop a method by which, the GNOME extensions can be made into > a separate package? > > Oh, and if you're panicking: (Don't touch CVS now!) or (We haven't even > made an alpha yet!) or (What? Who's going to write the docs?!), stay > calm. No-one's doing anything yet, we will thoroughly discuss how to go > about this, before starting any concrete work. > > Most probably, we would want to open a new branch in CVS for this, or, > host the project on sf.net or someplace similar. As mentioned before, > all your suggestions are most welcome. > > Give it a thought and let me know. > > Cheers, > > - Anant > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEdY7r1nS0RcInK9ARAjN7AJ0dhyziauV5V4Aqhf09zjnEFMHUmwCgm4oh KSOszCfnBzhZs+5YfMl5XKY= =lUkY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----