Re: Hello Sir, Regarding GSoC 2008

[Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel pacaud univ-poitiers fr>]

Hi,

(I'm CCing to the gnumeric list, you'll find more help than if you just
ask me...)

Le samedi 22 mars 2008 à 03:14 +0530, . Lenin . a écrit :
> As u told me to download the source from the subversion repository, i
> was searching the internet for using svn command in windows(because
> svn is a unix cmd ).. Finally i got a good svn client for windows (it
> is TortoiseSVN)..
>
> Using that client, i downloaded the source of only gnumeric\trunk\src
> \dialogs folder..
>
> But still i dont know how to run gnumeric(even after reading the links
> you sent me).. Please help.. Do i need all the folders to work with
> this poject? or only the dialogs folder i just downloaded?

You need to build gnumeric, and if you're using a Windows platform, some
of it's dependencies. Unfortunately, I don't know how to proceed, I'm
only using Linux.

        Emmanuel.

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Emmanuel Pacaud
> <emmanuel pacaud lapp in2p3 fr> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         Le mardi 18 mars 2008 à 23:43 -0800, . Lenin . a écrit :
>         
>         > Where do i get the existing code for file import dialog for
>         gnumeric?
>         > How to test? I mean what software i need to run this code?
>         
>         
>         It's in gnumeric itself, in the src/dialogs directory. The
>         work should
>         be based on gnumeric SVN, located on svn.gnome.org. See
>         http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html for explanations on
>         how to get
>         the sources.
>         
>         Build dependencies for gnumeric SVN should be the same as the
>         one for
>         the last stable version (1.8.2), which are listed here:
>         http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/downloads.shtml .
>         
>                Emmanuel.
>         
>         svn co svn:svn.gnome.org
>         
>         >
>         > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Emmanuel Pacaud
>         > <emmanuel pacaud lapp in2p3 fr> wrote:
>         >         Hi,
>         >
>         >         Le mardi 18 mars 2008 à 20:24 +0530, . Lenin . a
>         écrit :
>         >         > I saw that you are the mentor for the project i
>         wished to
>         >         work for
>         >         > this summer..
>         >         >
>         >         > I wish to work under you in the project
>         "Customizable file
>         >         formats "..
>         >         >
>         >         > I know C and Java and XML..
>         >         >
>         >         > I know web programming(with HTML,CSS,JavaScript)
>         >
>         >
>         >         Sounds fine, though only C and XML are required for
>         this task.
>         >
>         >         The idea is to rework the existing code of the
>         gnumeric text
>         >         import
>         >         dialog, in order to be able to store its different
>         parameters
>         >         in an XML
>         >         file, and store them for latter reuse. Currently,
>         each time
>         >         the user
>         >         opens a text file, he has to review all the text
>         import
>         >         settings before
>         >         actually import the data, which is more than
>         annoying when you
>         >         import
>         >         several text files with the same format. With this
>         work, we
>         >         could offer
>         >         the choice between selecting one of the stored
>         import
>         >         settings, or the
>         >         use of the actual import setting dialog.
>         >
>         >         A further step would be to try to come up with a way
>         to
>         >         "guess" the text
>         >         import settings, for example by using the file
>         extension, or
>         >         by applying
>         >         a regular expression on the start of the file.
>         >
>         >         The code should then be moved from gnumeric to
>         goffice.
>         >
>         >         > I'm expecting your reply, whether i'm eligible to
>         work with
>         >         you this
>         >         > summer..
>         >
>         >
>         >         I don't know what is exactly the application
>         procedure (I
>         >         guess Google
>         >         has the final word on an application approval), but
>         until the
>         >         start of
>         >         the application period, you should try to begin to
>         be familar
>         >         with the
>         >         gnumeric codebase, and to understand what needs to
>         be done in
>         >         order to
>         >         fulfill this task. Don't hesitate to ask when things
>         are
>         >         unclear (and to
>         >         re-ask when you don't understand my replies... :) )
>         >
>         >         Good luck,
>         >
>         >                Emmanuel.