Here is an idea the Google folks might like: Port sta.li (and p9p?) to use Android's libc. AFAIK there is no real linux distro that uses the Android libc, and this would be a project that might be useful for everyone.
uriel On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Anselm R Garbe <ans...@garbe.us> wrote: > On 3 March 2010 08:22, Martin Kopta <mar...@kopta.eu> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:07:19AM +0000, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> GSoC 2010 has kicked of and is looking for mentoring organisations >>> next week, hence it's time now to get organised. >>> >>> Who is willing to mentor this time? >>> >>> What project ideas do you have apart from http://suckless.org/project_ideas? >> >> "Create stali stable release" > > Stali is definately a topic, forgot to mention this. The project idea > a colleague of mine at work came up with is creating wether a > completely new ld or ld wrapper at the least to collect all info when > a shared lib/executable is linked and using this info to create a > static library/executable instead, basically kind of a tee ld if you > like, where one result invisible to the caller is a static lib instead > of a dynamic one ;) This would enable building nearly everything > statically without the need of extra makefiles. I don't consider this > approach for the base system, since the value in it is all about > decent make files, but this might be a cool project for all other > stuff and would fit the GSoC scope quite well. > > Cheers, > Anselm > >
