[fsug-bangalore] Re: [IHUG] Re: [fsug-bangalore] Hurd Hackers meet this weekend

[harsha reddy]

Hi Buddies

Me searched this link, it is damn useful for beginner like me to get a guile kick start (sakkath hot maga!!!!)

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_guile/index.html

The project name is 

PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: " प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A)" <pravi.a at gmail.com>
> To: "Isaac Praveen" <isaac at deeproot.co.in>
> Subject: [fsug-bangalore] Re: [IHUG] Re: [fsug-bangalore] Hurd Hackers meet this weekend
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 20:34:04 +0530
> 
> 
> 12 May 2006 16:26:33 +0530, Isaac Praveen <isaac at deeproot.co.in>:
> 
> > Good idea. What time are we meeting tommorrow then ? Cubbon Park ?
> 
> 
> Tomorrow  2.30 pm Cafe Coffee Day , Cunningham Road. (Cubbon park is risky
> with the rains :-) )
> 
> Some more deatails of what we are gonna discuss. We will split each task to
> small logical ones and start working on those as soon as possible.
> 
> ,----
> > |
> > |  Well these are the ideas I would like to work on
> > |
> > |  1. Filesystem as package manager
> > |
> > |  No need for a separate database and file format for packages.
> > |
> > |  /packages/meta - contains information about the available packages like
> > |  dependencies /packages/binary - contains binary files from a package
> > |  /packages/source - source code files
> > |
> > |  unionfs will give a merged view of these package files in the / like
> > |  /bin /lib /var ...
> > |
> > |  so if you install a package from source like
> > |
> > |  ./configure --prefix=/packages/binary/emacs ; make; make install will
> > |  have all the binary files in /packages/binary/emacs direcory and it
> > |  will be immediately available to everyone and it is recognised by the
> > |  packaging system wothout any other commands or configuration
> > |
> > |  to check whether you have emacs installed
> > |
> > |  ls /packages/binary/emacs is enough to update the metadata rsync can be
> > |  used
> > |
> > |  More details has to be thought of and finalised.
> 
> 
> 
> Tasks:
> 
> a. Investigate on  Unionfs and find out how to show /packages/binary/*/lib
> as /lib
> b. Design a strategy to resolve dependencies
> 
> |
> > |  2. Filesystem as email client.
> > |
> > |  Use fetchmail to get email from server and use mboxfs to extract the
> > |  email info. Use any editor be it vi, emacs or gedit to read.
> > |
> > |  To write a mail we will use a write only file system. You just drag and
> > |  drop to a folder and the mail is sent. We can have this icon in the
> > |  panel (the traditional mail box makes sense here, you post it to the
> > |  box and it is gone).
> 
> 
> a. Read up RFC for IMAP and design an IMAP to mbox translator (check if one
> exists already)
> b. Same for SMTP (It is going to be trickier though)
> 
> |
> > |  3. Flexible backends for /etc/passwd file.
> > |
> > |  Use mysql, pgsql, ldap ... for authentication and create a translator
> > |  for /etc/passwd so than zero configuration is required for all other
> > |  programmes.
> 
> 
> a. Implement a simple single file filesystem.
> 
> |
> > |  If you have an idea, we can discuss that as well
> 
> 
> 
> We can discuss each in detail tomorrow and  may be split up  to even smaller
> tasks and lets each take up tasks that interests us.  if someone feels not
> yet ready for  jumping right away into coding
> we can think of some simple tasks which does not require hurd specific
> knowledge
> 
> a. Documentation
> b. A demo and presentaion (can have different levels from introduction to
> deeper knowledge).
> c. Maintain hurd.in wiki.
> d. Be a manager to the team, many might wanna be a boss :-) The tasks
> include getting people to meetup get them work on things. Motivate them ....
> e. Be a Public Relations rep, how we can get more students to get on to
> hurd...
> 
> I am excited... Lets start hacking right away.
> 
> |
> > |  Happy Hacking Praveen
> > |
> > |  -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history.  `Don't
> > |  bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."  --
> > |  Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
> > `----
> >
> > Splendid . Will talk about this and more tommorrow :)
> >
> >
> > isaac
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Isaac
> > http://freeshell.in/~ike
> > * I work at Deeproot Linux *
> > http://deeproot.co.in
> > --------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history.
> `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
> -- Richard Stallman
> Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

>


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