X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/541d49e1faad170c5e18447f1987cd985ff9fa93..296071e76872d934319b1d17355aeffdc14d17d1:/etc/tasks.texi diff --git a/etc/tasks.texi b/etc/tasks.texi index a0cfcf69ff..79458f7641 100644 --- a/etc/tasks.texi +++ b/etc/tasks.texi @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ @c %**start of header @setfilename tasks.info @settitle GNU Task List -@c UPDATE THIS DATE WHENEVER YOU MAKE CHANGES! -@set lastupdate 04 July 1997 +@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file: +@set lastupdate January 15, 2001 @c %**end of header @setchapternewpage off @@ -19,36 +19,41 @@ @top GNU Task List This file is updated automatically from @file{tasks.texi}, which was -last updated on @value{lastupdate}. +last updated on @value{lastupdate}. See also +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html#helpgnu} for other suggested +tasks. @end ifinfo @menu -* Intro:: -* Highest Priority:: -* Documentation:: -* Unix-Related Projects:: -* Kernel Projects:: -* Extensions:: -* X Windows Projects:: -* Other Projects:: -* Compilers:: -* Games and Recreations:: +* Intro:: +* Highest Priority:: +* Documentation:: +* Unix-Related Projects:: +* Kernel Projects:: +* Extensions:: +* X Windows Projects:: +* Network Projects:: +* Encryption Projects:: +* Other Projects:: +* Languages:: +* Education:: +* Games and Recreations:: @end menu -@node Intro +@node Intro, Highest Priority, Top, Top @chapter About the GNU Task List If you did not obtain this file directly from the GNU project and -recently, please check for a newer version. You can ftp the task -list from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task +recently, please check for a newer version. You can ftp the task list +from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text}, @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU HURD task list is also there in file @file{tasks.hurd}. @c to fix an overfill, join the paragraphs -len The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server: -@url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks_toc.html}. +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks_toc.html}. -If you start working steadily on a project, please let @code{gnu@@prep} +If you start working steadily on a project, please let @email{gvc@@gnu.org} know. We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to send you the GNU coding standards. @@ -73,7 +78,12 @@ to improve performance. Users who use the new functionality will appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important. -@node Highest Priority +Finally, if you think of an important job that free software cannot +solve yet that is typically solved by proprietary software, please send +a short description of that job to @email{tasks@@gnu.org} so that we can +add it to this task list. + +@node Highest Priority, Documentation, Intro, Top @chapter Highest Priority This task list mentions a large number of tasks that would be more or @@ -85,46 +95,82 @@ But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of high priority projects. @itemize @bullet + +@item +A new maintainer is needed for Goose +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/goose/goose.html}. + @item -If you are good at writing documentation, please do. +If you are good at writing documentation, please do that. @item If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a -look at @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and +look at @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and then get a copy of the latest HURD task list from: @itemize @bullet @item -@url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks.hurd.html}, via the World Wide +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks.hurd.html}, via the World Wide Web. @item -@url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP. +@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP. @item -@email{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu} via e-mail. +@email{gvc@@gnu.org} via e-mail. @end itemize @item If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look -at the URL @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/software/guile/guile.html} -and then contact @email{guile@@gnu.ai.mit.edu}. +at the URL @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html} +and then contact the Guile developers at @email{guile@@gnu.org}. + +@item +Improve the facilities for translating other languages into Scheme, +so that Guile can provide support for a variety of languages. + +@item +A package to convert programs written using MS Access into Scheme, +making use of a free data base system and the GTK toolkit. + +@ignore +@item +Help develop XmHTML. See @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/}. +@end ignore @item -Help develop the GNU web browser, E-scape. +Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems. +For example, you could help work on Willows Twin. +See @uref{http://www.willows.com/}. @item -Help develop Windows NT emulation for GNU systems---for example, WINE. +Add gettext support to GNU programs that don't have it already. (Please +contact the developers of the specific packages that you want to work +on.) +@ignore The Kermit developers say they will provide a free program +to do this. @item Implement the Kermit data transfer protocol. (See below.) +@end ignore +@ignore This is being done (Harmony) @item -Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a graphics toolkit -library. +Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a GUI toolkit library. Qt +is not free software, because users are prohibited from distributing +modified versions. Thus, Qt cannot be included in a free operating +system (adding it would make the system as a whole non-free). + +But some developers are writing free applications that use Qt and cannot +run without it. These programs, although free software, are useless for +free operating systems because there is no way to make them run. + +This is leading to a serious problem, and a free replacement for Qt is +the only solution. Hence the high degree of urgency of this project. +@end ignore @item Develop a substitute, which runs on GNU systems, for some very popular @@ -132,16 +178,67 @@ or very important application that many non-programmers use on Windows, and which has no comparable free equivalent now. @end itemize -@node Documentation +@node Documentation, Unix-Related Projects, Highest Priority, Top @chapter Documentation -We very urgently need documentation for some parts of the system -that already exist or will exist very soon: +We very urgently need documentation for many existing parts of the +system. + +Note that there are proprietary manuals for many of these topics, but +proprietary manuals do not count, for the same reason proprietary +software does not count: we are not free to copy and modify them. +We do not recommend any non-free materials as documentation. @itemize @bullet + +@item +A reference document for SQL for use as a standard for implementors of +free software versions of SQL. + +@item +A manual for libstdc++. + @item -A C reference manual. (RMS made a try at one, which you could start -with). +A unified manual for La@TeX{}. (Existing documentation is non-free.) + +@item +A manual for Docbook SGML format. + +@item +A tutorial introduction to Midnight Commander. + +@item +A thorough manual for RCS. + +@item +A reference manual for Mach. + +@item +A reference manual for the GNU Hurd features in GNU libc. + +@item +A manual for writing Hurd servers. + +@item +A manual for GNU sed. + +@item +Reference manuals for C++, Objective C, Pascal, Fortran 77, and Java. + +@item +A tutorial manual for the C++ STL (standard template library). + +@item +A tutorial manual for Gforth. + +@item +GNU Objective-C Runtime Library Manual; this would be a reference manual +for the runtime library functions, structures, and classes. Some work +has been done on this job. + +@item +Manuals for GNUstep: developer tutorial, developer programming manual, +developer reference manual, and user manual. @item A manual for Ghostscript. @@ -150,17 +247,27 @@ A manual for Ghostscript. A manual for TCSH. @item -A manual for PIC (the graphics formatting language). +A coherent free reference manual for Perl. Most of the Perl on-line +reference documentation can be used as a starting point, but work is +needed to weld them together into a coherent manual. + +@ignore +@c Bradley M. Kuhn is working on this. +@item +A good free Perl language tutorial introduction. The existing Perl +introductions are published with restrictions on copying and +modification, so that they cannot be part of a GNU system. +@end ignore @item -A manual for Oleo. +A manual for PIC (the graphics formatting language). @item A book on how GCC works and why various machine descriptions are written as they are. @item -A manual for programming X-window applications. +A manual for programming applications for X11. @item Manuals for various X window managers. @@ -170,18 +277,13 @@ Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: C Compiler, Make, Texinfo, Termcap, and maybe the C Library. @item -Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep} and others. +Many utilities still need documentation. @end itemize -@node Unix-Related Projects +@node Unix-Related Projects, Kernel Projects, Documentation, Top @chapter Unix-Related Projects @itemize @bullet -@item -An improved version of the POSIX utility @code{pax}. There is one on -Usenet, but it is said to be poorly written. Talk with -@code{thomas@@gnu.ai.mit.edu} about this project. - @ignore @item Modify the GNU @code{dc} program to use the math routines of GNU @@ -189,21 +291,19 @@ Modify the GNU @code{dc} program to use the math routines of GNU @end ignore @item -A @code{grap} preprocessor program for @code{troff}. +Less urgent: make a replacement for the ``writer's workbench'' program +@code{style}, or something to do the same kind of job. Compatibility +with Unix is not especially important for this program. @item -Various other libraries. +Rewrite @code{indent} from scratch to make it cleaner. @item -An emulation of SCCS that works using RCS. +Write a free software replacement for the @code{agrep} program. -@item -Less urgent: @code{diction}, @code{explain}, and @code{style}, or -something to do the same kind of job. Compatibility with Unix is not -especially important for these programs. @end itemize -@node Kernel Projects +@node Kernel Projects, Extensions, Unix-Related Projects, Top @chapter Kernel-Related Projects @itemize @bullet @@ -229,9 +329,13 @@ machine specific parts should be kept well separated. @item An implementation of CIFS, the ``Common Internet File System,'' for the HURD. This protocol is an offshoot of SMB. + +@item +Support (in Linux?) for dumping the non-textual contents of an SVGA +console. @end itemize -@node Extensions +@node Extensions, X Windows Projects, Kernel Projects, Top @chapter Extensions to Existing GNU Software @itemize @bullet @@ -242,22 +346,22 @@ distribution. @item Interface GDB to Guile, so that users can write debugging commands in Scheme. This would also make it possible to write, in Scheme, a -graphical interface that uses Tk and is tightly integrated into GDB. +graphical interface that uses GTK and is tightly integrated into GDB. @item -Rewrite GNU @code{sed} completely, to make it cleaner. +Extend Octave to support programs that were written +to run on Khoros. @item -Rewrite Automake and Deja-GNU in Scheme, so they can run in Guile. -Right now they are written in Perl and TCL, respectively. There are -also other programs, not terribly long, which we would also like -to have rewritten in Scheme. +Rewrite Automake in Scheme, so it can run in Guile. Right now it is +written in Perl. There are also other programs, not terribly long, +which we would also like to have rewritten in Scheme. @item Finish the partially-implemented C interpreter project. @item -Help with the development of GNUStep, a GNU implementation of the +Help with the development of GNUstep, a GNU implementation of the OpenStep specification. @item @@ -276,17 +380,11 @@ An @code{nroff} macro package to simplify @code{texi2roff}. A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by destination rather than by original message. This makes it possible to schedule retries coherently for each destination. Talk to -@code{tron@@veritas.com} about this. +@email{tron@@veritas.com} and @email{woods@@weird.com} about this. -Smail also needs a new chief maintainer. - -@item -Enhanced cross-reference browsing tools. (We now have something at -about the level of @code{cxref}.) We also could use something like -@code{ctrace}. (Some people are now working on this project.) @end itemize -@node X Windows Projects +@node X Windows Projects, Network Projects, Extensions, Top @chapter X Windows Projects @itemize @bullet @@ -294,120 +392,149 @@ about the level of @code{cxref}.) We also could use something like An emulator for Macintosh graphics calls on top of X Windows. @item -A music playing and editing system. -@item -High-quality music compression software. -(Talk with phr@@netcom.com for relevant suggestions.) +A package that emulates the API of Visual C++'s Foundation Classes +(MFC), but operates on top of X11. It need not match the screen +appearance provided by MFC. Instead, it would be best to use GTK, so as +to give coherence with GNOME. +@ignore +@c GNOME Basic is doing this @item -A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format. +A compatible replacement for Visual Basic, running on top of X11. +It need not match the screen appearance of Visual C++. Instead, +it would be best to use GTK, so as to give coherence with GNOME. +@end ignore +@ignore +@c Denemo is doing this. @item -A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input. +A music playing and editing system. This should work with LilyPond, a +GNU program for music typesetting. +@end ignore +@ignore @c GNUskies should do this @item -A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display -dancers moving on the screen. +An ephemeris program to replace xephem (which is, alas, too restricted +to qualify as free software). +@end ignore -@item -Port the Vibrant toolkit to work on X without using Motif. +@c Gepetto (@url{http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/gepetto/intro-main.html}, +@c @email{laurent.riesterer@@free.fr}), according to @email{gnueval@@gnu.org}, +@c does the job of displaing dancers but does not allow editing notation. -@item -A program to display and edit Hypercard stacks. @item -A paint program, supporting both bitmap-oriented operations and -component-oriented operations. @code{xpaint} exists, but isn't very -usable. +Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif. @item -A vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator -and Corel Draw. +A program to display and edit Hypercard stacks. @item -An interactive 3D modeling utility with rendering/raytracing capabilities. +A two-dimensional outliner program, which lets you draw +graph structures of textual items, and then display them +in various ways. +@ignore @c done @item A program for graphic morphing of scanned photographs. -@end itemize +@end ignore -@node Other Projects -@chapter Other Projects +@item +Software for designing and printing business cards. +@end itemize -If you think of others that should be added, please -send them to @code{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu}. +@node Network Projects, Encryption Projects, X Windows Projects, Top +@chapter Network Projects @itemize @bullet +@ignore +@c www.openh323.org is doing this. Craig Southeren @item -A free program for public-key encryption. - -This program should use the Diffie-Helman algorithm for public key -encryption, not the RSA algorithm, because the Diffie-Helman patent in -the US will expire in 1997. It should use triple-DES, not IDEA, for -block encryption, because IDEA is patented in many countries and the -patents will not expire soon. +A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is, +alas, not free software). +@end ignore -In other respects, it should be like PGP. If the new version of PGP -no longer uses RSA and IDEA, compatibility with it may be feasible. +@ignore +@c Bishop Bettini is working on this. +@item +A free ICQ-compatible server program. (The ICQ server itself is not +free software.) +@end ignore -There is a suggestion that the Blowfish algorithm might be a good choice -for the non-public-key block encryption. I'm not an encryption expert -so I don't have an opinion about that. +@end itemize -This program needs to be written by someone who is not a US citizen, -outside the US, to avoid problems with US export control law. +@node Encryption Projects, Other Projects, Network Projects, Top +@chapter Encryption Projects -Many people believe that PGP is free software, but that is not actually -true. The distribution terms do not allow everyone to use and -redistribute it. We used to think that these restrictions had been -imposed by the patent holders for the RSA and IDEA algorithms, and that -PGP could be free software if these algorithms were replaced by -alternatives. But we have since learned that the owners of PGP are -themselves unwilling to make it free software. Writing a new program is -the only way to get free software for this job. +These projects need to be written outside the US by people who are not +US citizens, to avoid problems with US export control law. +@itemize @bullet @item -A free secure telnet program more or less like ssh/sshd. Since this -requires a public key encryption algorithm, it is closely related to the -preceding item. - -This program should follow the draft standard for ssh. As always, it -cannot implement the RSA algorithm, but must instead support the -alternatives that will be patent-free in late 1997. It cannot support -IDEA, but can use triple-DES and/or Blowfish or other non-patented -alternatives. +A free library for public-key encryption. This library can probably be +developed from the code for the GNU Privacy Guard. + +@item +An implementation of SSLv3 (more precisely, TLSv1) which has +distribution terms compatible with the GNU GPL. We know of a +GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL that you can use as a +starting point. @item Free software for doing secure commercial transactions on the web. This too needs public key encryption. +@end itemize -@item -A free program that can transfer files on a serial line -using the same protocol that Kermit uses. +@node Other Projects, Languages, Encryption Projects, Top +@chapter Other Projects -@item -An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher. +If you think of others that should be added, please +send them to @email{tasks@@gnu.org}. + +@itemize @bullet +@ignore OpenBIOS is doing this +@item +A simple PC BIOS. On most new PCs, the BIOS is stored in writable +memory (misleadingly known as ``flash ROM''). In order to have a wholly +free system on these PCs, we need a free BIOS. + +This task is made simpler by the fact that this BIOS need only support +enough features to enable a boot-loader such as LILO or GRUB to finish +loading the kernel. Neither Linux nor Mach actually uses the BIOS once +it starts up. Also, it is not absolutely necessary to do all the many +diagnostics that an ordinary BIOS does (though it would be useful to do +some of them). However, there may be a need to configure certain data +in the computer in a way that is specific to each model of computer. +@end ignore @item -An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3} (How dbased!) +An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher. @item -A bulletin board system. There are a few free ones, but they don't have -all the features that people want in such systems. It would make sense -to start with an existing one and add the other features. +An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3}. (How dbased!) +Harbour, a free replacement for Clipper, would provide a useful start. +@uref{http://www.harbour-project.org/}. +@ignore @c being done by Jonas etc. @item A general ledger program, including support for accounts payable, account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc. +@end ignore @item -A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is, -alas, not free software). +A free replacement for Glimpse, which is not free software. +Swish does some parts of the job, but not all. @item -A program to typeset C code for printing. -For ideas on what to do, see the book, +Software for desktop publishing. We are extending Emacs into a WYSIWYG +word processor, to handle primarily linear text; what this item proposes +is software focused on page layout. + +@ignore It looks like TruePrint will fill this gap +@item +A program to typeset C code for printing, to make it easier to read on +paper. For ideas on what to do, see the book, @display Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, @@ -415,95 +542,220 @@ Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 @end display -(I don't quite agree with a few of the details they propose.) +But you don't have to do exactly what they propose. +@end ignore +@ignore +@c This is now being worked on -- rms, 22 June 1998 @item A program to convert Microsoft Word documents to text/enriched, TeX, LaTeX, Texinfo, or some other format that free software can edit. +@end ignore + +@ignore +@c People are helping the developer of siff release it as free software. + +@item +A free replacement for siff (sometimes called sif). This would be a +program to find similar files in a large file system, ``similar'' +meaning that the files contain a significant number of common substrings +that are of a certain size or greater. You can find some information +about siff (which is, unfortunately, not free software) at +@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/reports/1993/TR93-33.ps.Z}. +@end ignore +@ignore +@c This is being developed -- rms, 3 May 1998 @item A free replacement for the semi-free Qt library. +@end ignore + +@ignore +@c Ogg Vorbis is doing this, see @url{http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html} or contact @email{Monty }. @item -Speech-generation programs (there is a program from Brown U that you -could improve). +High-quality music compression software. +(Talk with @email{mt@@sulaco.org} for relevant suggestions.) +Unfortunately we cannot implement the popular MP3 format +due to patents, so this job includes working out some other +non-patented format and compression method. +@end ignore + +@item +A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format. + +@item +A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input. + +@item +Programs to handle audio in RTSP format. +@ignore @c Software patents have made this domain off limits to free software. +@item +An MPEG III audio encoder/decoder (but it is necessary to check, first, +whether patents make this impossible). + +@c Chris Hofstader is working on a non-Festival speech-generation program. +@c Mario Lang reports that Festival needs only +@c to be 2-5 times faster to work well with Emacspeak. +@item +Speech-generation programs that are faster than the Festival engine. +This might be done by optimizing Festival. + +@c We have a project now. @item Speech-recognition programs (single-speaker, disconnected speech is sufficient). +@end ignore @item -More scientific mathematical subroutines. -(A clone of SPSS is being written already.) +A braille translation and formatting system which can convert marked up +documents into braille. This should let the user customize the braille +translation rules; it would be good to divide it into a +device-independent part plus drivers. Contact Jason White, +@email{jasonw@@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU}. +@ignore Being done @item -Statistical tools. +A program to display text word by word, always showing just one word at +a time. This method permits much faster reading than ordinary text +display. If you want to work on this, contact @email{stutz@@dsl.org} to +learn more. +@end ignore + +@item +More scientific mathematical subroutines. +(A clone of SPSS is being written already.) @item A scientific data collection and processing tool, perhaps something like Scientific Workbench and/or Khoros, @item -Software to replace card catalogues in libraries. +A program to calculate properties of molecules by solving +the Schroedinger equation. @item -Grammar and style checking programs. +Software to replace card catalogs in libraries. + +@item +A simulator for heating and air conditioning systems for buildings. + +@ignore +@c Pat Deegan @email{pat@@psychogenic.com} is working on this. +@c no URL yet, the status is updated in @file{volunteers} + +@item +A program for voting and tabulating election results. + +@end ignore + +@item +A package for editing genealogical records conveniently. +This could perhaps be done as a Gnome program, or perhaps +as an Emacs extension. + +@ignore +@c ToutDoux aims to do this. @item -An implementation of the S language (an interpreted language used for -statistics). +A project-scheduling package that accepts a list of project sub-tasks +with their interdependencies, and generates Gantt charts and Pert charts +and all the other standard project progress reports. +@end ignore @item -A translator from Scheme to C. +Grammar and style checking programs. @item -A fast emulator for the i386 which works by translating -machine instructions into the machine language of the host machine. -(Support for emulation of other machines would enhance the program -but might make it much more difficult.) +A diagnostic program to test a hard disk. @item Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed. +@c Some of the OCR work being done: +@c Luis Cearra , http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html +@c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers} + +@item +A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to editable Postscript, +or some other editable format. + @item -A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript. +A program to recognize handwriting (we don't believe PocketLinux's +handwriting capability is ready for non-PocketLinux environments, yet). + @item -A program to recognize handwriting. +A program that can translate from one natural language, into another. +For example, a program to translate French into English. @item A pen based interface. @item CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad. + +@item +A program to receive data from a serial-line tap to facilitate the +reverse-engineering of communication protocols. + +@item +A database program designed to store and retrieve patent information. + +@item +A free software package to run on a Palm Pilot in place of its usual +software, doing more or less the usual jobs. (Linux, the kernel, has +apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not +useful yet.) + @end itemize -@node Compilers -@chapter Compilers for Other Batch Languages +@node Languages, Education, Other Projects, Top +@chapter Programming Languages Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as -Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, Eiffel, or whatever, to be -used with the code generation phases of the GNU C compiler. +Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, Delphi, Modula 2, Modula 3, +RPG, and any other languages designed for compilation, to be used with +the code generation phases of the GNU C compiler. -@c Fortran status is here so gnu@prep and the volunteer coordinators +@c Fortran status is here so gnu@gnu.org and the volunteer coordinators @c don't have to answer the question -len You can get the status of the Fortran front end with this command: @example -finger -l fortran@@gnu.ai.mit.edu +finger -l fortran@@gnu.org @end example -@node Games and Recreations -@chapter Games and Recreations +We would like to have translators from various languages into Scheme. +These languages include TCL, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and Rexx. +Perhaps Clipper as well. -Video-oriented games that work with the X window system. +@node Education, Games and Recreations, Languages, Top +@chapter Education + +Programs for studying, teaching or doing administrative tasks in schools. +See @uref{http://www.gnu.org/education/} for additional information. @itemize @bullet @item -A Doom-compatible display game engine, for running the many free -levels people have written for Doom. +A programm to organize automatically the schedule of a school given +constraints about teachers, rooms, times, and students. +@item +A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display +dancers moving on the screen. Gepetto does some of this work. Contact +@email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job. + +@end itemize + +@node Games and Recreations, , Education, Top +@chapter Games and Recreations + +Video-oriented games that work with the X window system. + +@itemize @bullet @item Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading) @@ -512,10 +764,21 @@ An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of simulation games. @item -Improve GnuGo, which is not yet very sophisticated. +Improve GnuGo @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html}, which is not yet very sophisticated. + +@item +Network servers and clients for board and card games for which such +software does not yet exist. @item -Imitations of popular video games: +A Hierarchical Task Network package which can be used +to program play the computer's side in various strategic games. + +@item +A game like Mill/Nine Men's Morris. + +@item +Write imitations of some popular video games: @itemize - @item @@ -525,23 +788,18 @@ Defending cities from missiles. @item Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc. @item -Wizard fights fanciful monster. +Wizard fights fanciful monsters. @item A golf game. +@ignore Being done by jhall1@isd.net @item Program a robot by sticking building blocks together, then watch it explore a world. +@end ignore @item Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind Watchmaker}). -@item -A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds. @end itemize - -@item -Intriguing screen-saver programs to make interesting pictures. -Other such programs that are simply entertaining to watch. -For example, an aquarium. @end itemize We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. @@ -549,3 +807,21 @@ We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. @contents @bye +@c LocalWords: dir texi lastupdate uref http www org html helpgnu ifinfo ftp +@c LocalWords: dvi hurd toc gvc URL GTK XmHTML xs nl ripley NT com gettext Qt +@c LocalWords: GUI libstdc Docbook SGML libc sed STL Gforth GNUstep TCSH Perl +@c LocalWords: Ghostscript PIC GCC Texinfo grep dc bc ethernet GDB IP CIFS CU +@c LocalWords: SMB SVGA Khoros Automake OpenStep diff roff Smail tron veritas +@c LocalWords: cxref ctrace API LilyPond xephem labanotation LessTif outliner +@c LocalWords: Hypercard morphing SeeMe ICQ Diffie Helman RSA SSLv TLSv GPL +@c LocalWords: OpenBIOS BIOS LILO dbase dbased Harbour harbour WYSIWYG ISBN +@c LocalWords: TruePrint Baecker siff sif cs arizona edu TR ps mt sulaco MP +@c LocalWords: RTSP MPEG jasonw ariel ucs unimelb AU stutz dsl TCL Javascript +@c LocalWords: Rexx GnuGo jhall isd Biomorph regexp eval gd gnuorg +Local variables: +update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate " +update-date-trailing-regexp: "" +eval: (load "/gd/gnuorg/update-date.el") +eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date) +compile-command: "make just-tasks" +End: