<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Forwarding As it was sent just to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Caroline<br><br>Sent from a mobile device.</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Abhishek Shroff <<a href="mailto:shroffabhishek@gatech.edu">shroffabhishek@gatech.edu</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 30 March 2009 19:13:51 BST<br><b>To:</b> Caroline Ford <<a href="mailto:caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com">caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux4Kids</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would like to emphasize the fact that what I would be writing in Java is a library-cum-backend to the application.. This backend would be used to parse, display, and execute commands from external files (probably XML).. <br>
<br>I understand why you would not want to rely on people staying after GSoC.. Worst case scenario: I leave a soon as gsoc ends. With what I have in mind, you would barely need to even touch the Java source code.. You would actually only be modifying the configuration files.. Consider the XML configuration files to be the scripts, and the Java backend to be the interpreter. Unless you would need drastic changes in the functionality of the Application, the Java part of it should not need to be changed.<br>
<br>With this approach, configuration and extension of the application would be extremely easy, modifying/creating a few XML "scripts" which would be well documented..<br><br>Please consider this, as I am really interested in this project, and I do not plan to apply to any other ones..<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Abhishek<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Caroline Ford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com"><a href="mailto:caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com">caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>We can't rely on people staying. The most important thing is that the code is easily maintainable after gsoc. It needs to fit in and be stuff we can maintain ourselves.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I appreciate that you have experience in java but we are written in C. You'd be better finding an organisation who's app is written in java.</div><div><br></div><div>Caroline<br><br>Sent from a mobile device.</div>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 30 Mar 2009, at 17:04, Abhishek Shroff <<a href="mailto:shroffabhishek@gatech.edu" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:shroffabhishek@gatech.edu">shroffabhishek@gatech.edu</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div>What I plan to create is a library, which would parse and display a GUI based on external (probably XML) files so that the program is easily extensible.. And if you're worried about maintaining the Java project, then I would be interested and more than willing to continue with the Java maintenance after GSoC..<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidstuartbruce@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:davidstuartbruce@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:davidstuartbruce@gmail.com">davidstuartbruce@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Abhishek,<br>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Abhishek Shroff<br>
<<a href="mailto:shroffabhishek@gatech.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:shroffabhishek@gatech.edu" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:shroffabhishek@gatech.edu">shroffabhishek@gatech.edu</a></a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I just wanted to know whether you are still interested in the project..<br>
><br>
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</div>Well, I find it *interesting*, to be sure, but I don't know about it<br>
being a good fit for GSoC. We aren't exactly a "large team" of C<br>
coders that could recruit a "small team" of Java guys/gals to maintain<br>
the rewrite. At least 95% of the code in tuxmath was written by only<br>
five people (two of them being last year's GSoC students).<br>
<br>
Anyone else care to comment? The proposal is to rewrite tuxmath<br>
completely in Java, AFAICT to allow it to be run via a web browser.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
David<br>
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