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Updated GSoC 2014 Ideas (markdown)

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# Projects # Projects
## Compiler ## Compiler
- # Add support for coroutines - **Add support for coroutines**
- # Fix bugs with iterators/generics - **Fix bugs with iterators/generics**
- # Fix/Expand Compiler as a Service features - **Fix/Expand Compiler as a Service features**
## Standard Library ## Standard Library
- Integrate and expand new async io module - **Integrate and expand new async io module**
- # Enhance the filesystem monitoring module "fsmonitor.nim" - **Enhance the filesystem monitoring module "fsmonitor.nim"**
* Allow the fsmonitor module to work on Windows by using native api's to gather information about changes in monitored files and directories. * Allow the fsmonitor module to work on Windows by using native api's to gather information about changes in monitored files and directories.
* Revise the fsmonitor module api to decouple unix/linux file handle paradigms (such as using sockets.poll) from the api, allowing easier implementations of native backends. * Revise the fsmonitor module api to decouple unix/linux file handle paradigms (such as using sockets.poll) from the api, allowing easier implementations of native backends.
* Integrate the fsmonitor module's polling mechanism into the new asynchronous io modules. * Integrate the fsmonitor module's polling mechanism into the new asynchronous io modules.
- # Add a cross-platform stat()-like procedure to the operating system module "os.nim" - **Add a cross-platform stat()-like procedure to the operating system module "os.nim"**
* Implement a procedure which uses native stat-like calls on Linux, Mac, Windows, and other operating systems to gather detailed information about specific file system objects. Allow the bypassing of symlinks and hardlinks, where possible. * Implement a procedure which uses native stat-like calls on Linux, Mac, Windows, and other operating systems to gather detailed information about specific file system objects. Allow the bypassing of symlinks and hardlinks, where possible.
- # Enhance and expand standard library documentation - **Enhance and expand standard library documentation**
* Ensure that documentation exists for all public methods and modules * Ensure that documentation exists for all public methods and modules
* Create and design new CSS and HTML layouts for the documentation, to better fit with the main website * Create and design new CSS and HTML layouts for the documentation, to better fit with the main website
* Add search capabilities to the documentation * Add search capabilities to the documentation
## Tools & Infrastructure ## Tools & Infrastructure
- Update and refactor nimrod builder - **Update and refactor nimrod builder**
* Reduce the number of assumptions the nimrod builder makes about its host system, in order to reduce configuration restrictions. Assumptions include location and usage of external tools, such as git. * Reduce the number of assumptions the nimrod builder makes about its host system, in order to reduce configuration restrictions. Assumptions include location and usage of external tools, such as git.