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+= Links =
+[wiki:MacPortsDevelopers Back to the MacPorts Developers page][[BR]]
+[wiki:MacPorts.Framework_Roadmap MacPorts.Framework Roadmap][[BR]]
+[wiki:MPFramworkGSocWk MacPorts.Framework GSoc Log] 
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+= GSoC 2008 - MacPorts Framework =
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+Hello all, I am Armahg (a.k.a. George Armah) and will be working on a Foundation and AppKit MacPorts Framework for GSoC this summer. I am not a port maintainer yet but I am hoping to learn enough from GSoC to become a regular contributer and maintain some ports. [wiki:rhwood Randall Wood] (a.k.a. rhwood) who had already started some of this project has offered to be my mentor. Below is a description of my project:
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+= Project Overview =
+The MacPorts project is written mostly in Tcl and runs on the Mac OS X platform.
+Since Objective-C is usually the defacto programming language for applications
+that leverage the Mac's Cocoa Framework and other OS X technologies,  applications 
+that want to leverage MacPorts Tcl based API (of notable interest  are 
+GUI front ends for the MacPorts infrastructure) will have to come up with a way
+to bridge their code with MacPorts' Tcl code. [[BR]]
+
+To this end, there is currently
+an ongoing effort to build a Coca framework around the MacPorts Tcl-based API.
+(See [wiki:MacPortsFramework]).
+As the project site mentions : "The goal of the Framework is to provide a responsive 
+and fully-featured API to MacPorts for Cocoa developers with an emphasis on 
+responsiveness for GUI developers." [[BR]]
+
+The primary goal of my project will be
+to build on what has already been done in order to complete the ongoing MacPorts Framework along with the necessary API documentation etc. This will consist of two main deliverables:[[BR]]
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+  * A Foundation Framework that implements the MacPorts Tcl API and
+  * An AppKit Framework that uses the Foundation to expose the elements in the Foundation that would be necessary for making a GUI.
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+
+
+==  MacPorts Foundation (MacPorts.Framework)  ==
+This will provide object orientation for manipulating the ports along with
+the properties of the port (installed, not installed, maintainer). It
+will have messages that enable the installation, removal, upgrade etc. of
+a port.
+      
+
+==  MacPorts Application Kit (MacPorts AppKit.Framework) ==
+This will implement a secure mechanism for using the Foundation
+to provide information necessary for making a UI. The Foundation allows
+one to programatically interface with the MacPorts internals, the AppKit
+will in some sense, provide more granular, formatted information
+on the status of ports (among others).[[BR]]
+
+     
+
+A more detailed description of the above frameworks has kindly been provided by my mentor at [wiki:MacPorts.Framework_Roadmap MacPorts.Framework Roadmap]. I will also
+be hoping to do a fair bit of code documentation as my project progresses.
+I will be updating [wiki:MPFramworkGSocWk MacPorts.Framework GSoc Log] about once per
+week with notes on my progress over the summer.
+ 
+== A little bit about myself ==
+I am a final year, Ghanaian born, Computer Science and Mathematics double major from Lafayette College.
+I started learning Computer Science about 3 years ago when I switched majors.
+I have learnt the following languages from my courses: Java, Python, Standard ML, C, C++, Mathematica
+and have varying levels of proficiency in them. I have also self-taught myself Objective-C and Cocoa
+with lots of help from the Open Source community. [[BR]]
+
+In addition to my interests in Computer Science, I have a strong interest in Mathematics: Group
+Theory to be exact. My current final year project involves learning about how theoritical computer
+science tools can be applied to studying Reflection groups.
+See [http://cayleycoxeter.blogspot.com/] for more details. 
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