On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 04:11:06 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> I've been trying to find something on this, but haven't yet, but I am not sure if website work would be considered appropriate.

The website is still a program, and the ranking algorithm is, well, an algorithm, so it is code; the student would likely be researching, experimenting, perhaps gathering data, and ultimately, submitting D code with the result.

Though, it wouldn't be a library like most the other accepted projects.

On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 15:19:23 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> So the ideas page is up for the 2017 GSoC.  Its a bit light on content.  Please feel free to use this forum thread to discuss any ideas you might have for appropriate projects.
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2017_Ideas
>
> Cheers
>
> Craig

Fully implementing the C++ STL integration.

According to Walter, everything that's needed in DMD is there. It just requires someone who knows the in's and out's of the STL to sit down and create the equivalent structs to get the right mangling.

I think this would become a killer selling point of D if this were to happen.

On 1/15/17 7:43 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 15:19:23 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> So the ideas page is up for the 2017 GSoC.  Its a bit light on
>> content.  Please feel free to use this forum thread to discuss any
>> ideas you might have for appropriate projects.
>>
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2017_Ideas
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Craig
>
> Fully implementing the C++ STL integration.
>
> According to Walter, everything that's needed in DMD is there. It just
> requires someone who knows the in's and out's of the STL to sit down and
> create the equivalent structs to get the right mangling.
>
> I think this would become a killer selling point of D if this were to
> happen.

We have Alexandru working on that.

BTW stuff from https://wiki.dlang.org/Project_Ideas should be merged into GSoC, too.


Andrei

On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 05:17:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 04:11:06 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> I've been trying to find something on this, but haven't yet, but I am not sure if website work would be considered appropriate.
>
> The website is still a program, and the ranking algorithm is, well, an algorithm, so it is code; the student would likely be researching, experimenting, perhaps gathering data, and ultimately, submitting D code with the result.
>
> Though, it wouldn't be a library like most the other accepted projects.

So there does seem to be significant support for something along these lines, anyone interested in mentoring this.

I wanted to ask if anyone knows if there is a way to add links to PDF documents to the Wiki.  I want to post some successful past proposals, but the Wiki only seems to want to let me upload a small number of formats, with PDF not being one of them.

On 25/01/2017 12:17 PM, CRAIG DILLABAUGH wrote:
> I wanted to ask if anyone knows if there is a way to add links to PDF
> documents to the Wiki.  I want to post some successful past proposals,
> but the Wiki only seems to want to let me upload a small number of
> formats, with PDF not being one of them.

Create a new post requesting PDF enabled for upload on the wiki. Otherwise you won't get the appropriate responses.