Re: Interested in expanding Dasher for use with an IDE to program

["Christophe Strobbe" <strobbe hdm-stuttgart de>]

Am Mi, 5.06.2013, 13:53 schrieb Piñeiro:
> On 06/05/2013 10:18 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Di, 4.06.2013, 22:13 schrieb Patti Ordóñez Rozo:
> > > I am very interested in extending Dasher to include programming
> > > languages
> > > to enable individuals with physical disabilities to efficiently use
> > > IDEs
> > > such as Eclipse. Is this possible? If so, any pointers for where I
> > > should
> > > begin looking?
> > Even though Dasher is available under GPL version 2 and you can download
> > the source code, it has not been released on a public project hosting
> > site
> > (GitHub, SourceForge and the like).
>
> Sorry, but I think that you are wrong. Dasher is currently hosted at
> gnome git repository:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/dasher

Funny, I completely missed that.

Christophe


> > That is not because the developers did
> > not want to release it that way, but because many open source projects
> > simply never receive contributions from outsiders except for
> > translations.
> > If you want to contribute to the code, I recommend that you contact
> > David
> > Mackay at the University of Cambridge. See
> > <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/Download.html> and
> > <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/Contact.html>.
>
> You can also contribute with Dasher using gnome tools, for example,
> there are a dasher component on gnome bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=dasher
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias

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