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User's Guide to the GNU Objective-C Class Library

18.1 Projects Looking for Volunteers

If you think you can do one of these projects, please let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated. Send email to `mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu'.

• Write a test-suite for the library. Use dejagnu.

• Write a proper name server for SocketPort's. Currently we're just hashing the name to a socket port number--we could get unwanted hash collisions. This will also allow us to name a SocketPort after it's been created.

• Make SocketPort more reliable than UDP.

• GNU Notification registration classes, notification classes.

• GNU Exception classes.

• Write more/better random number generators. Make them conform to the protocol <RandomGenerating>. See RNGAdditiveCongruential.

• Write user-visible random number classes in the spirit of the `Random' class. Look at Smalltalk's ProbabilityDistribution classes, and think about replacing the `Random' class with something more like these. How about Poisson and Gaussian distributions also?

• Write some code to deal with `%@' in printf-style format strings.

• Implement efficient SmallInt and SmallFloat classes in the same sort of way that Smalltalk does. Talk to me. mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu.

• See http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/mccallum/libobjects/volunteers.html for a list of the claimed and unclaimed GNUStep Foundation classes.