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digitalmars.D - GSoC Project Feedback - iOS and Android versions of DSFML

reply Jeremy DeHaan <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
Hi all,

I have been working on a proposal for the upcoming GSoC, and its 
to a point where I wanted to get some feedback on things.

I maintain DSFML, a wrapper and binding to the C++ game library 
SFML. Essentially the core of my proposal is to add the ability 
for binding to build iOS and Android versions which can then 
leverage recent work on LDC to build and run on these mobile 
systems. SFML can already target these OS's, so most of the work 
is done there. Barring anything extreme, this would allow D 
programmers to easily work on games for mobile devices pretty 
much as soon as that functionality is officially released in the 
LDC compiler. I think that's pretty damn awesome. There are a few 
other things in my proposal, like updating some things and fixing 
some bugs, but Android and iOS support is pretty much the meat 
and potatoes.

For those interested in seeing the actual proposal I am working 
on, I have provided the link below. Just know that this is my 
first draft and *a lot* of revising and editing still needs to be 
done.

https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML/files/160669/DSFML.Summer.of.Code.Proposal.-.FirstDraft.pdf


Please let me know if you think this is worth the effort and 
would make a good GSoF project.
Mar 06 2016
next sibling parent reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 02:34:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 For those interested in seeing the actual proposal I am working 
 on, I have provided the link below. Just know that this is my 
 first draft and *a lot* of revising and editing still needs to 
 be done.

 https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML/files/160669/DSFML.Summer.of.Code.Proposal.-.FirstDraft.pdf


 Please let me know if you think this is worth the effort and 
 would make a good GSoF project.


Certainly worth the effort but I'm not sure it's a good GSoC 
project, as I wonder if this is the kind of grunt work that they 
want to sponsor and if it's enough work for a whole summer.  That 
would all depend on more details about what you think needs to be 
done.
Mar 06 2016
parent Jeremy DeHaan <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 05:40:01 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 02:34:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 For those interested in seeing the actual proposal I am 
 working on, I have provided the link below. Just know that 
 this is my first draft and *a lot* of revising and editing 
 still needs to be done.

 https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML/files/160669/DSFML.Summer.of.Code.Proposal.-.FirstDraft.pdf


 Please let me know if you think this is worth the effort and 
 would make a good GSoF project.


 Certainly worth the effort but I'm not sure it's a good GSoC 
 project, as I wonder if this is the kind of grunt work that 
 they want to sponsor and if it's enough work for a whole 
 summer.  That would all depend on more details about what you 
 think needs to be done.


Yeah, that's a pretty fair assessment I think. Not being sure if 
this would be good for GSoC is the reason I asked and it's also 
the reason why I am considering other projects as well. I just 
wanted to start with something I know I could do within the given 
time frame and something that I thought would be really useful 
for the D language and community. If I get similar feedback from 
other people, I will probably work on a different proposal.
Mar 06 2016
prev sibling parent Dmitry <dmitry indiedev.ru> writes:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 02:34:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 Please let me know if you think this is worth the effort and 
 would make a good GSoF project.


I don't know, is it good project for GSoC or not, but I will be 
happy if it will be done.
(and yep, I really use DSFML in my projects)

P.S. Thank you for DSFML.
Mar 07 2016