Re: GSoC 2010 Project Ideas

[Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp@...>]

Am Mittwoch, den 27.01.2010, 03:05 -0500 schrieb Patrick Donnelly:
> Hi All,
> 
> Google has announced the next Google Summer of Code [1]. There have
> been attempts in the past to form an official Lua project. While I
> think it would be great for that to happen, it probably won't be a
> reality this year (unless some super secret group has something
> cooking). I thought it would be useful to have any potential students
> reading the list to be able to find a list of projects that are using
> Lua to choose from. So here are two projects that are very likely to
> be accepted that use Lua:
> 
> o Nmap's Script Engine (NSE): http://nmap.org/soc/
>   (Keep in this page hasn't been updated from last year.)
>   There are two principal needs for the project:
>     o Students to write NSE scripts [2]. There is a great need here;
> it's possible more than one student may be accepted.
>     o A student to work on the Scripting Engine Infrastructure.
> 
> o GNU Screen Scripting Support:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2009.html
>   I honestly don't know the status on this project but it was
> available last year and a student was accepted. I haven't been able to
> find any evidence it was completed. It's possible it may be dropped :(
> 
> I would encourage anyone else who knows of a potential project
> thinking about Lua or may even have a need that can be solved using
> Lua to post in this thread.
> 
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f
> [2] http://nmap.org/book/nse.html#nse-intro
> 

Lua scripting in GDB
http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProjectIdeas

They already have Python support but I like the idea to 
be able to use Lua. I could add more entries there if 
someone knows more benefits when using Lua (maybe over Python).

Peter