[Nemiver-list] nemiver summer of code

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji domain hid>]

Hello,

The google summer of code program has started.

Thanks to Jonner's tenacity, we have proposed some tasks for nemiver,
under the GNOME umbrella.

Here is what you can read from the GNOME SoC page at
http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2007/Ideas:

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* Benefits: Make a really great debugger for GNOME developers. Currently
GNOME has a relative lack of high-quality developer tools.


* Requirements: C++ programming, some gtkmm


The Nemiver debugger aims to provide a first-class debugger for use in
developing GNOME applications. Adding a command-line interpreter would
allow experienced users to have all of the benefits of a graphical
debugger (e.g. seeing full highlighted source code, integration with
the desktop environment) while still maintaining the efficiency of
using gdb on the commandline. The idea is to allow users to, for
example, quickly set a breakpoint using "b functionname" without having
to open a file and select the line to break at with the mouse. The
command line interpreter would not implement every command supported by
gdb, just the most common ones.

* Possible alternate ideas involving Nemiver: Create a memory
inspector, investigate adding a new debugger backend for e.g. debugging
python programs (Nemiver is designed with a pluggable infrastructure so
it can use multiple debugger backends)

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So if you know motivated students who would be interested but yet feel
a bit impressed about proposing themselves, please do cheer them !

If you have interesting ideas that could help improve the project,
please let's talk !

Cheers,

-- 
Dodji Seketeli
http://www.seketeli.org/dodji