[plt-scheme] PLT projects waiting for contributors?

And audio!  Yes?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:55:14 +0100, Sigrid Keydana wrote:
>> So my question is, are there any PLT projects that need contributors
>> (and can afford taking in people who are not so experienced yet)?
>
> We could use some image-file libraries:
>
>  * reading GIF files (we already have a library for writing)
>
>  * reading and writing BMP files
>
>  * reading and writing XPM & XBM files
>
> All of these format are currently built into MrEd using C code, but the
> code is ugly and we'd like to get rid of it. Also, these image formats
> are fairly simple.
>
> (In contrast, I would not recommend re-implementing JPEG or PNG
> processing in Scheme, because they're complex, and the existing C
> libraries work well.)
>
>
> Matthew
>
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