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- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
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Take the changes that were made in 2.6 and work with the maintainers of
binutils at cygnus to ensure that those changes will still work in the
next release and also hopefully to get the changes accepted into the
master source tree so they don't have to be maintained separately.
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
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Average
- Reward
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$100 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
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No current activity.
Daniel Verite daniel@brainstorm.fr has been in contact with
Ian Taylor ian@cygnus.com of Cygnus about getting this done. It
is possible, but some hacks need cleaning up. Daniel does not think
he has time to do this at the moment. If someone would like to volunteer,
get in touch with Daniel as he can probably offer some help.
- Date
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28 February 1998
- Description
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Write a GUI for gdb. Gdb already has hooks for GUI's. A good place to
start would be to get and examine GDBTK, which is a version of GDB that
has a GUI written in TK. Available from ftp.cygnus.com in pub/gdb.
- Volunteers
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Jason White, jpwhite@harp.aix.calpoly.edu
- Difficulty
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Difficult
- Reward
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$200 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
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Jasons says it's more or less on stand-by. He did a little work on it
a few weeks ago. He has a web page for this project at
http://www.calpoly.edu/~jpwhite/. The page has been last updated
on 12 February 1998 and there is a beta release for download on the page.
He is looking for beta testers!
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
-
Many of the changes currently in Geek Gadgets are candidates for being folded
back into the main source base for each of the specific tools. You will
need to work with the maintainer of each tool to take the current
changes and get them folded back into his source tree. Some changes may
require complete reworks in order to make them acceptable, and some may
be acceptable "as is".
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
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Average
- Reward
-
Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards), value depends upon actual work.
- Status
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No current activity.
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
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Probably requires porting effort of low level support library.
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
-
- Difficult
-
- Reward
-
$40 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
-
No current activity.
- Date
-
19 March 1998
- Description
-
Many programs, such as gdb and GNU uucp, require access to the serial
port. In order to easily port these programs support needs to be added
to ixemul.library to emulate the way Unix handles this. I'm not entirely
sure what exactly needs to be done, but it will probably entail adding
special handling for a /dev/ttya file (much like the way /dev/null is
currently handled).
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
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Average-difficult
- Reward
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$100 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
-
No current activity.
This project is in validation.
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
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A very useful thing for someone to do would be to try building PasTeX from
the supplied source. Assuming that works, and that the source is complete,
there would probably be some parts that would be very useful to merge into
the Geek Gadgets unixtex, such as showdvi for example. At one time the
Geek Gadgets unixtex was based on a newer version of TeX than PasTeX, but I
don't know if that is still true or not, if PasTeX has been updated. In any
case, Geek Gadgets unixtex could also use some updating from the CTAN
archives.
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
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Average
- Reward
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$60 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
-
No current activity, but there is some work carried out to package a new
Geek Gadgets tex distribution from various sources. Inquire on
gg-tex@ninemoons.com for details.
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
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Try to make an X11 emulation library so that X11 programs can be
compiled and linked with it and look like a 'normal' Amiga program.
Use the existing source of DJGPP's GRXLIB (MSDOS GCC port) as a
starting point. GRXLIB implements an API to access VGA gfxcards.
One could make an VGA card that resembles the Amiga gfx chipset.
Use the X11 emulation library XlibEmu, which uses GRXLIB, to build
the actual X11 emulation. Terje Pedersen did it so it is possible.
Terje Pedersen may provide his source.
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
-
Might depend if the project could be splitted into several parts or
not.
- Reward
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$100 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
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No current activity.
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
-
JOVE is a very nice, small EMACS type editor, which comes from the
contrib portion of the BSD distribution. It would be very nice to
have an Intuition interface for it, rather than the current termcap
based one.
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
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Moderate.
- Reward
-
$100 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
-
No current activity.
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
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libstdc++ contains most of the C++ runtime support for the GNU C++
compiler. It would be very useful to have a shared library version
available, as well as the regular link library.
Even more useful would be a partitioning in several parts (say,
libio on one side, stl on another), as with all template instances,
libstdc++ tends to be rather big.
- Volunteers
-
- Difficulty
-
Moderate.
- Reward
-
$100 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
-
No current activity.
This project was formerly listed as Project 24: Turn libg++
into a shared library.
- Date
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19 March 1998
- Description
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Transform the GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc.a) into an Amiga
shared library.
- Volunteers
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Martin Hauner, hauner@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
- Difficulty
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Moderate.
- Reward
-
$100 Cronus credits (see section 1.1 Rewards).
- Status
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I'm working on it.
- Date
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14 March 1998, (apparently) completed
- Description
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Add ARexx support to EMACS such that later it can be used as the
core of an Integrated Development Environment. It is possible
that there is already code dealing with ARexx in the current
EMACS 19 version from the repository (?).
- Volunteers
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- Difficulty
-
Just guessing here, but I'd say this won't be easy.
- Reward
-
Not yet defined - a good one for someone to offer a reward for.
- Status
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Bert Winkelmann bertw@in-brb.de reported that he has merged
the AREXX port from Emacs-18.59/19.28 (so there was AREXX code ;) into
his Emacs-20.2 port. He said it works good.
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