[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] GSOC - TUXMATH

[David Bruce]

HI,

2009/3/20 k roy <kroykroy at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am a final year under-graduate student aiming to apply for GSoC '09 and
> this would be my first (and last) time. I am interested to work in Tuxtype.
> I had tuxtype installed in my system through Synaptic (I use Ubuntu) and I
> started exploring the same. I found that most of the XML files given in the
> data/scripts folder were not functioning properly when run from the main
> program. So I am looking into the possible bugs. Also I'll install Tuxtype
> from the subversion directory to check if the scripts bug are removed there.

The XML-based scripting code in tuxtype is probably the least
clearly-understood code in the program.  Basically, it was implemented
by one of my predecessors, and no one currently with tuxtype has much
of a handle on it.  It seems potentially very useful, but is also a
case of "reinventing the wheel", much like how tuxtype used to have
its own homemade gettext implementation instead of standard GNU
gettext.  It might be a worthwhile project to use an external library
to provide the functionality in scripting.c.

Best,

David