Re: Summer of Code project ideas

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Pat Thoyts wrote:

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

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A few project ideas I am not sure if they are feasible for GSoC:

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* embedding graphical diff and graphical merge tool in git-gui, e.g. as
  "git gui diff".  I think that we can use xxdiff; the license is 
  compatibile.

  Pat and Shawn, is it something worth doing?  Does it look like a good
  project for GSoC2011, or is it too small of a project for this?  Would
  we be able to find mentor for this idea?

There is also tkdiff for stealing from. I'm not sure about the worth -
there are lots of free merge tools around. But if someone wants to do
that then fine.

I meant TkDiff, not xxdiff here; I'm sorry for the mistake.

TkDiff has the advantage that is already written in Tcl/Tk, so we can
borrow code (like e.g. "refining" diff), not only algorithms.

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* splitting gitk, common library (Tcl/Tk bindings) for gitk and git-gui

  Pat and Paul, do you think it is right scope, or is it too large project
  to put as an GSoC idea?

It shouldn't be too large. You are likely looking at doing Git.pm as a
Tcl package (without looking in much detail). Testing that gitk and
git-gui didn't get broken will probably be tedious. So adding some test
suite to each could help. The Tcl test package is quite capable of being
used to test Tk apps provided some tests get written.

I thought that would be mainly re-using library part of git-gui in gitk;
tests are decidely a good idea, though I don't know if there are ready
tools to do tests for programs written in Tcl/Tk , and for testing UI.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland