Contributing to Inkscape
Hi inkscape devs, I'm a bachelor student in computer science, and I would like to contribute to inkscape as part of a porject for a course I'm taking. The requirements are to add a feature to an open source project written in c++. The feature I had in mind for now, is to extend the Align and Distribute panel, by allowing also circular distributions.
Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.
By the way, I'm currently getting a lot of namespace errors while compiling using gcc 4.6.3 on arch-linux 64bit. Is there a patch out there to correct those errors, or do I have to manually edit all the affected files?
Thanks,
Denis
My bad on compiling, based on outdated documentation, I had checked out the svn repository instead of bazaar
On 03/06/12 10:50, Denis wrote:
Hi inkscape devs, I'm a bachelor student in computer science, and I would like to contribute to inkscape as part of a porject for a course I'm taking. The requirements are to add a feature to an open source project written in c++. The feature I had in mind for now, is to extend the Align and Distribute panel, by allowing also circular distributions.
Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.
By the way, I'm currently getting a lot of namespace errors while compiling using gcc 4.6.3 on arch-linux 64bit. Is there a patch out there to correct those errors, or do I have to manually edit all the affected files?
Thanks,
Denis
It doesn't seem right to me. SVN is outdated by BZR a long time ago. If there are build problems in Arch linux, then it's quite probably distro specific problem. I'm building on Ubuntu linux for months and there aren't any problems (build related, I mean).
You might want developer's input though.
Cheers, Vlada
On 03/06/2012 02:42 PM, Denis wrote:
My bad on compiling, based on outdated documentation, I had checked out the svn repository instead of bazaar
On 03/06/12 10:50, Denis wrote:
Hi inkscape devs, I'm a bachelor student in computer science, and I would like to contribute to inkscape as part of a porject for a course I'm taking. The requirements are to add a feature to an open source project written in c++. The feature I had in mind for now, is to extend the Align and Distribute panel, by allowing also circular distributions.
Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.
By the way, I'm currently getting a lot of namespace errors while compiling using gcc 4.6.3 on arch-linux 64bit. Is there a patch out there to correct those errors, or do I have to manually edit all the affected files?
Thanks,
Denis
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Denis <declara91@...400...> wrote:
Hi inkscape devs,
Hi Denis!
I'm a bachelor student in computer science, and I would like to contribute to inkscape as part of a porject for a course I'm taking. The requirements are to add a feature to an open source project written in c++. The feature I had in mind for now, is to extend the Align and Distribute panel, by allowing also circular distributions.
This sounds like an interesting idea. Do you have any plans for how it would function and where you see it fitting in the existing dialog?
Given that you're a college student, if you do go through with this, would you have any interest in looking into possibly participating in Google's Summer of Code with us this year? They haven't announced the participating organizations yet, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to throw it out there in the event that we are accepted again this year. If so and if you're interested, one of the requirements we have is to submit 2 patches to be eligible and your above work (if completed in time) would certainly count as a patch. Let me know if you'd like more information.
Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.
By the way, I'm currently getting a lot of namespace errors while compiling using gcc 4.6.3 on arch-linux 64bit. Is there a patch out there to correct those errors, or do I have to manually edit all the affected files?
Having already seen your other comment about checking out svn vs bzr, let us know if you have any issues with checking out and compiling.
Cheers, Josh
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Vladimir Savic