Re: [dev] GSoC 2010

Here is an idea the Google folks might like: Port sta.li (and p9p?) to
use Android's libc. AFAIK there is no real linux distro that uses the
Android libc, and this would be a project that might be useful for
everyone.

uriel

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us> wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 08:22, Martin Kopta <martin_AT_kopta.eu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:07:19AM +0000, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> GSoC 2010 has kicked of and is looking for mentoring organisations
>>> next week, hence it's time now to get organised.
>>>
>>> Who is willing to mentor this time?
>>>
>>> What project ideas do you have apart from http://suckless.org/project_ideas?
>>
>> "Create stali stable release"
>
> Stali is definately a topic, forgot to mention this. The project idea
> a colleague of mine at work came up with is creating wether a
> completely new ld or ld wrapper at the least to collect all info when
> a shared lib/executable is linked and using this info to create a
> static library/executable instead, basically kind of a tee ld if you
> like, where one result invisible to the caller is a static lib instead
> of a dynamic one ;) This would enable building nearly everything
> statically without the need of extra makefiles. I don't consider this
> approach for the base system, since the value in it is all about
> decent make files, but this might be a cool project for all other
> stuff and would fit the GSoC scope quite well.
>
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>
>
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