Re: [boost] [GSOC] Are we going to participate?

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSOC] Are we going to participate?
From: Antony Polukhin (antoshkka_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-14 02:36:59

2013/2/14 Michael Marcin <mike.marcin_at_[hidden]>:
> Boris Schaeling wrote:
>> For now no idea is too stupid - and even if it is, it might help someone
>> else to get a good idea. :)

More ideas:
- USB library (integrated with asio?)
- COM port library (integrated with asio?)
- Hardware random number generator (integate with Boost.Random!)
- Pipes and named pipes library (integrated with asio? integrated with
IOstreams?)
- Protocols implementation based on asio (SNMP for example )
- Simple key-value reading and storing (or just allow program options
to write options into config file)
- Full text search
- Near Duplicate Detection (shingling)

> We don't have to volunteer to implement any of these ideas right? :)

Let's be honest, this ideas require much more than 3 months of coding:

> - Hardware graphics (OpenGL/OpenGL|ES/DirectX abstraction)
> - GUI library
> - physics library (ODE/Havok/PhysX/etc abstraction)

This is already implemented in Boost.PropertyTree (and there is a
Spirit implementation in Spirits examples)
> - json parsing libary

Those I'd really love to heave:
> - trie data structure
> - radix sort

--
Best regards,
Antony Polukhin