Re: GSoC 2008: Project Proposal - Common Application Installer

[Micah Cowan]

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Ibraheem P wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
>    I'm Ibraheem from India, a Computer Science and Engineering student.I
> would like to participate in GSoC 2008. I've an idea about developing a
> software called *'Common Application Installer' *for Linux* *which
> facilitate installation of packages in various formats in almost all
> Linux distributions. It includes the installation of Linux Standard Base
> (LSB), RPM, DEB, Solaris (PKG) , Stampede (SLP), Slackware ( TGZ ) etc
> and also facilitate installation from source packages (./configure,
> make, make install). It can develop with a GUI to make easy installation
> of packages for the user. I am proficient in C, C++,Java, Qt Designer,
> Gtk+ etc.

Hi Ibraheem,

Linux is not a GNU project, though most desktop platforms based on the
Linux kernel rely on GNU's operating system components very heavily. The
various packaging formats, also, are in general not related to GNU,
either; for these reasons, I don't believe that the GNU Project would be
an appropriate mentoring organization to consider such a proposal.

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Sincerely,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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