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4 @settitle GNU Task List | |
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12 @title GNU Task List | |
5120 | 13 @author Free Software Foundation |
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19 @top GNU Task List |
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22 last updated on @value{lastupdate}. | |
5119 | 23 @end ifinfo |
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25 @menu | |
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26 * Intro:: |
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28 * Documentation:: |
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29 * Unix-Related Projects:: |
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30 * Kernel Projects:: |
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15866 | 39 @chapter About the GNU Task List |
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41 If you did not obtain this file directly from the GNU project and |
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42 recently, please check for a newer version. You can ftp the task list |
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43 from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task |
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44 list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text}, |
18588 | 45 @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU |
46 HURD task list is also there in file @file{tasks.hurd}. | |
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48 The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server: |
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49 @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks_toc.html}. |
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52 know. We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to |
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53 send you the GNU coding standards. |
5119 | 54 |
15866 | 55 Because of the natural tendency for most volunteers to write programming |
56 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of | |
57 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to | |
58 consider writing such a program. | |
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60 Typically, a new program that does a completely new job advances |
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61 the GNU project, and the free software community, more than an |
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62 improvement to an existing program. |
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64 Typically, new features or new programs advance the free software |
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65 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One |
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66 reason is that portable new features and programs benefit people on many |
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67 platforms, not just one. At the same time, there tend to be many |
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68 volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other |
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69 areas, where volunteers are more scarce. |
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71 Typically, it is more useful to extend a program in functionality than |
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72 to improve performance. Users who use the new functionality will |
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73 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from |
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80 less useful. With luck, at least one of them will inspire you to start |
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84 But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of |
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85 high priority projects. |
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88 @item |
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89 If you are good at writing documentation, please do. |
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92 If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can |
18588 | 93 help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a |
94 look at @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and | |
95 then get a copy of the latest HURD task list from: | |
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97 @itemize @bullet | |
98 | |
99 @item | |
100 @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks.hurd.html}, via the World Wide | |
101 Web. | |
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18588 | 104 @url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP. |
105 | |
106 @item | |
107 @email{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu} via e-mail. | |
108 | |
109 @end itemize | |
110 | |
111 @item | |
112 If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look | |
113 at the URL @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/software/guile/guile.html} | |
114 and then contact @email{guile@@gnu.ai.mit.edu}. | |
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117 Help develop the GNU web browser, E-scape. |
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120 Help develop Windows NT emulation for GNU systems---for example, WINE. |
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123 Implement the Kermit data transfer protocol. (See below.) |
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126 Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a graphics toolkit |
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130 Develop a substitute, which runs on GNU systems, for some very popular |
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5120 | 135 @node Documentation |
5119 | 136 @chapter Documentation |
137 | |
138 We very urgently need documentation for some parts of the system | |
139 that already exist or will exist very soon: | |
140 | |
141 @itemize @bullet | |
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15866 | 143 A C reference manual. (RMS made a try at one, which you could start |
144 with). | |
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146 @item | |
147 A manual for Ghostscript. | |
15866 | 148 |
149 @item | |
150 A manual for TCSH. | |
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152 @item | |
153 A manual for PIC (the graphics formatting language). | |
154 | |
155 @item | |
156 A manual for Oleo. | |
157 | |
158 @item | |
159 A book on how GCC works and why various machine descriptions | |
160 are written as they are. | |
161 | |
162 @item | |
163 A manual for programming X-window applications. | |
164 | |
165 @item | |
166 Manuals for various X window managers. | |
167 | |
168 @item | |
14803 | 169 Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: C |
15866 | 170 Compiler, Make, Texinfo, Termcap, and maybe the C Library. |
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172 @item | |
14803 | 173 Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep} and others. |
5119 | 174 @end itemize |
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5120 | 176 @node Unix-Related Projects |
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181 An improved version of the POSIX utility @code{pax}. There is one on | |
15866 | 182 Usenet, but it is said to be poorly written. Talk with |
17909 | 183 @code{thomas@@gnu.ai.mit.edu} about this project. |
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187 Modify the GNU @code{dc} program to use the math routines of GNU | |
188 @code{bc}. | |
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191 @item | |
192 A @code{grap} preprocessor program for @code{troff}. | |
193 | |
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195 Various other libraries. | |
196 | |
197 @item | |
198 An emulation of SCCS that works using RCS. | |
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226 A shared memory X11 server to run under MACH is very desirable. The | |
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244 Scheme. This would also make it possible to write, in Scheme, a | |
245 graphical interface that uses Tk and is tightly integrated into GDB. | |
246 | |
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16935 | 248 Rewrite GNU @code{sed} completely, to make it cleaner. |
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16935 | 251 Rewrite Automake and Deja-GNU in Scheme, so they can run in Guile. |
252 Right now they are written in Perl and TCL, respectively. There are | |
253 also other programs, not terribly long, which we would also like | |
254 to have rewritten in Scheme. | |
255 | |
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270 files without reading entire files into core. | |
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273 An @code{nroff} macro package to simplify @code{texi2roff}. | |
274 | |
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276 A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by | |
277 destination rather than by original message. This makes it possible | |
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297 A music playing and editing system. | |
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331 @item | |
332 A program for graphic morphing of scanned photographs. | |
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392 @item | |
393 An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3} (How dbased!) | |
394 | |
395 @item | |
396 A bulletin board system. There are a few free ones, but they don't have | |
397 all the features that people want in such systems. It would make sense | |
398 to start with an existing one and add the other features. | |
399 | |
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402 account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc. | |
403 | |
404 @item | |
405 A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is, | |
406 alas, not free software). | |
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408 @item | |
409 A program to typeset C code for printing. | |
14803 | 410 For ideas on what to do, see the book, |
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412 @display | |
413 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, | |
414 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, | |
415 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 | |
416 @end display | |
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418 (I don't quite agree with a few of the details they propose.) | |
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470 A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript. | |
471 | |
472 @item | |
473 A program to recognize handwriting. | |
474 | |
475 @item | |
476 A pen based interface. | |
477 | |
478 @item | |
479 CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad. | |
480 @end itemize | |
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483 @chapter Compilers for Other Batch Languages | |
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491 You can get the status of the Fortran front end with this command: |
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493 @example |
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5120 | 497 @node Games and Recreations |
498 @chapter Games and Recreations | |
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15866 | 500 Video-oriented games that work with the X window system. |
501 | |
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15866 | 504 A Doom-compatible display game engine, for running the many free |
505 levels people have written for Doom. | |
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507 @item | |
508 Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading) | |
509 | |
510 @item | |
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511 An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of |
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512 simulation games. |
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514 @item |
15866 | 515 Improve GnuGo, which is not yet very sophisticated. |
516 | |
517 @item | |
5119 | 518 Imitations of popular video games: |
519 | |
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522 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns. | |
523 @item | |
524 Defending cities from missiles. | |
525 @item | |
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526 Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc. |
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528 Wizard fights fanciful monster. | |
529 @item | |
530 A golf game. | |
531 @item | |
532 Program a robot by sticking building blocks together, | |
533 then watch it explore a world. | |
534 @item | |
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536 Watchmaker}). |
5119 | 537 @item |
538 A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds. | |
539 @end itemize | |
540 | |
541 @item | |
542 Intriguing screen-saver programs to make interesting pictures. | |
543 Other such programs that are simply entertaining to watch. | |
544 For example, an aquarium. | |
545 @end itemize | |
546 | |
547 We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. | |
548 | |
549 @contents | |
550 | |
551 @bye |