> I'm also very excited about being accepted for taking part in GSoC this > year.
Welcome! > To make up for the fact that I can't devote all my time to the project (due > to exams) until the middle of June, I'll be starting on the coding quite > soon. In your proposal you said from "middle of April", so let's hope this doesn't slip too much. Have you already managed to get a build of LibreOffice? Please hang around on the developer IRC channel, #libreoffice-dev on freenode, and don't be afraid to ask even what seems like silly questions publicly. > One point I'm not yet too certain about is how the Libreoffice component > will be written, I think it would be most elegant to write a GPL'd python > plugin, mainly since the only cross platform bluetooth library is for > python, Which library is that? http://lightblue.sourceforge.net/ ? That says "This project is no longer maintained" and the latest update is from 2009, which doesn't seem too encouraging. Also, its cross-platformness seems to have a glaring omission: Windows. Personally I am not really Python-knowledgeable, so if I am to be a co-mentor for this project, I wouldn't really be able to help much in Python-related issues. And trust me, there will be, in a cross-platform environment like LO, which uses a bundled Python 2.6 on some platforms/configurations vs. the system ones on others (which can (presumably) be quite varying versions). I wonder, if using Bluetooth has cross-platform issues, if it would be easier to initially use just plain old IP (over WiFi)? Are Bluetooth APIs really platform-specific? > and released under the GPL (but then having a GPL'd plugin would > probably mean it would have to be distributed separately). Hmm, I am not sure about this, I think we would much prefer to have the code as C++ code inside LO itself, and thus licensed as LGPL/MPL (the combination which we use for all newly written code). --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
