Google SoC 2008

[William Siegrist]

Ok, I added both of Randall's tasks (#3 and #10 now).

Randall, can you be a mentor for these? If so, can you add yourself to  
the wiki page?

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/SummerOfCode


-Bill


On Mar 4, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Randall Wood wrote:
> On 2/29/08, James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:
>> I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts
>> should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
>> .
>>
>> You might be inclined to address any of the following questions:
>>
>>  - Do you feel MacPorts should participate in GSoC 2008?
>>  - Are there particular MacPorts projects you'd like to suggest?
>
> Yet another possible project (sorry for yapping about like this):
>
> Add support for a mechanism similar to Finks init.[c]sh mechanisms for
> providing basic and port-provided environmental services to users in
> the .profile, .cshrc, and .xinitrc files, so that instead of
> manipulating the user's .profile to modify certain paths, all we do is
> append something like "source /opt/local/etc/bash.rc" to the end of a
> user's .profile file and that bash.rc would be like /etc/rc and would
> source all the files in /opt/local/etc/bash.d
>
> This would require:
> 1)   Adding support to the Portfiles for setting key value pairs that
> can then be written out at some phase (install?) into both correct
> bash and csh (and maybe other shell) syntaxes and stored in
> ${prefix}/etc/init.d/${portname}.shell
> 2)   Adding support for managing X11-specific key value pairs that
> would be stored into ${prefix}/etc/xinit.d/${portname}
> 3)   Writing the files ${prefix}/etc/init.shell for each shell we
> decide to support. These files need only support correcting the PATH
> and MANPATH for macports and then sourcing all of the files in init.d
> ending in the correct shell.
> 4)   Writing ${prefix}/etc/init.X11 that would source
> ${prefix}/etc/init.sh (the xinit mechanism is a bash shell, I believe)
> and then source all the files in init.d ending in X11.
> 5)   Provide a simple command line utility that can correctly
> enable/disable sourcing the init.shell|X11 files for a user.
>
> What gets inserted into a user's .profile/.xinitrc/.cshrc file? It
> should be a couple of lines of comment explaining the single command
> line that we added to the file followed by the command line (in bash:
> source /opt/local/etc/init.sh)
>
>>  - Are you willing to be a GSoC mentor?
>>  - Would you be interested, as a student, in participating in a GSoC
>> project for MacPorts?
>>
>> GSoC pays students a wage for the summer to work on open source
>> projects, and also a stipend to the project for each student project.
>>
>> If interested, we need to move very quickly. As the Google GSoC FAQ
>> says:
>>
>>        "We'll begin accepting applications from open source mentoring
>> organizations on Monday, March 3, 2008; we'll stop accepting
>> organization applications on Wednesday, March 12th."
>>
>> Your feedback is welcome
>>
>> James
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>
>
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>
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William Siegrist
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