Re: GSOC idea: build in scripts and cleanups

Dne středa 30 března 2011 17:39:12 Thomas Rast napsal(a):

Jeff King wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Robert David wrote:

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As far as cleanup versus features, I think Thomas would have to
comment on that. He is the one who did the most work on patch-mode,
and therefore the one who most thinks it needs cleaned up. :)

Is Thomas going to be a mentor in this task?

I hope so. I can also co-mentor if it helps.

I'm certainly ready; I didn't propose any projects that I would not
also mentor.  (However, I won't mentor more than one...)

Thank you for your attention.

Note that while it's certainly a bonus, porting it to C probably makes
the project more difficult and time-consuming.  We'll have to see in
the proposal timelines however.

It is not a big problem to me. I plan to begin full time work on this in half 
June.
Before that I plan some cleanups and fixes to simplify the upcoming porting.

As for cleanup, my gut feeling right now is that the Perl code can
probably cope with incremental cleanups as required for each feature.
On the other hand, the C port should start from a clean redesign so as
to not rewrite it twice.

I agree that porting to C should be done from scratch. Thats why I would clean 
and extend the script first to make a "preview". Than when it will comply 
with requirements, I will port that from scratch to C.

Robert