Re: Please give me some advice and guidance for clisp proposal for GSoC

[Wataru N. <sti...@gm...>]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, I canceled my enrollment.
So I was disqualified from GSoC and am going to studying for the next
entrance exam.
In this proposal, I become more and more interested in CLISP.
Thus I would love to contribute for CLISP with or without GSoC.

2016-03-22 7:51 GMT+09:00 Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...>:

> Hi Wataru,
>
> Nice to hear from you.
> Note that Daniel Jour also expressed interest in CLISP + GSoC, so here
> is what I wrote to him:
>
> You could make a release.
> This will require you to learn the current CLISP infrastructure which
> will be absolutely critical when you move on to the next step of
> cleaning up the code.
> This will also allow us, the CLISP maintainers, to pass on our expertise
> to you and to monitor and mentor your progress.
> It is also a finite task with a clear and visible deliverable.
>
> Currently, CLISP hg tip is in a bad state: an import of gnulib packages
> resulted in a code base which probably works only on Linux.
>
> Specifically, what you would need to do is
>
> 1. update all gnulib imports
>
> 2. fix gnulib/Windows interaction (gnulib assumes FD to be an int,
>    Windows uses Handles)
>
> 3. make sure that CLISP builds and passes self-tests on as many
>    platforms as possible, but at least
>    A. Linux (fedora, ubuntu &c)
>    B. Windows (whatever the most common version is now, with and without
>       cygwin)
>    C. Mac OS X
>    D. *BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD)
>
> 4. Make an official source and binary release.
>
> I think the above is a good GSoC project.
>
>
> > * Wataru Nakaishi <fgv...@tz...> [2016-03-17 23:35:23 +0900]:
> >
> > Hello sir,
> >
> > I am Wataru NAKANISHI, planning to enroll the university in Japan as of
> 21
> > March 2016.
> > I have been using Common Lisp daily, and been interested in contributing
> > for some lisp project.
> > Then when I had come to know the participation of CLISP in GSoC, I wanted
> > keenly to contribute for CLISP.
> >
> > I usually use Arch Linux, and sometimes use Windows 10. So I can work for
> > the tasks of both OSs.
> > The task which I'm the most interested in is developing thread-safe hash
> > tables, but I have almost no experiences about multi-threading.
> > At any cost, I would love to work for CLISP even if I should do other
> tasks.
> >
> > Please give me some advice.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Wataru
>
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