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

[Peter Korn <peter korn oracle com>]

Christophe,

Perhaps you are confusing Dasher with OpenGazer...


Peter

On 6/5/2013 5:19 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:

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

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