Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code 2009

+1 for some graphical tools for darcs, especially even a graphical merge tool (and a console/curses based version as well, to be sure). And +1 for darcs and xmonad applying as mentoring organizations in their own right. For that matter, it might be worthwhile for GHC to apply as well! That would ensure some dedicated compiler slots, and more could be contributed from the main haskell.org pool as appropriate. As well, I know that there's quite a nice new hackage2 almost rolled out, but I'm sure that there's at least an SoC project or two worth of feature additions to that as well. Off the top of my head, and bearing in mind that some might be further along than I think: a generalized way to search the package database, slicing and dicing by upload time, authors/maintainers, popularity, limiting views to packages that build on certain platforms, etc; some thought into security measures; a ratings system and associated reviews (thread/ wikibased); ways to mark packages as depreciated/for historic purposes. And there's bound to be more. As for numerics, I recall that Greg Wright, who knows whereof he speaks, had some particular issues that he thought no existing library addressed. I can't recall the details or do them justice, but perhaps he might care to enlighten us? Cheers, Sterl. On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:16 AM, Matthew Elder wrote:

would love to see this.

basic features first i suppose. here are some of my ideas:

1. browseable change history with preview pane (preview pane shows diff and patch message) 2. darcs send which goes through the usual interactive console but then prompts with a file save pane where you will save the .dpatch (easy contribution). 3. graphical dependency chart for patches (also shows conflict patches as merges).

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009 20:45 schrieb Gwern Branwen:

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Here are the projects I favor (in no particular order):

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* A GUI interface to Darcs (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17); this could possibly be based on TortoiseDarcs http:// tortoisedarcs.sourceforge.net/. Perhaps the specific project could be making TortoiseDarcs not Windows specific?

I plan to start writing a GUI interface to darcs together with some of our students. (However, we don't want to base it on TortoiseDarcs.) So if you have ideas of what features such an interface should have, please write me quickly.

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