Re: [myhdl-list] MyHDL development tasks

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Jian LUO wrote:
> Jan Decaluwe wrote:
>> Recently I got some inquiries from people offering
>> to help with MyHDL development. I have now created
>> a page with some of the tasks I'm thinking about
>> for a future release. Help on them is welcome.
>>
>> http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/dev:tasks
>>
>>   
> Good to see myhdl evolving.
> 
> Back in January I've posted a patch here that partly implements 
> conditional expressions.
> Unfortunately, at that time I had no time to figure out how to check it 
> in in merurial.
> And now I'm still willing to give it a try.

I remember. I had a few issues: it was not done with mercurial, there
was no unit test, but the main (external) issue was that the compiler package
was becoming obsolete. So I didn't want to add further conversion features
until the move to the ast package was completed. But this is done now (in
development), so we can proceed now. However, take into account that
you need Python 2.6 for development. (We need the ast package functionality
from that version.)

> So Jan, how can I contribute? 

Use your expertise and do it again, this time with ast :-)
(I realize it feels redundant. However, I just had to do this for
*all* convertor code, so you'll forgive me.)

> Does the myhdl repo need a account a/o 
> password?

No, just install mercurial and follow the guidelines here:

http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/dev:repo

The whole world (including Python itself) seems to be moving to
mercurial these days, so I'm confident that we made the right
choice. So in any case, it's not a waste of your time.

To contribute changesets, follow the guidelines here:

http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/dev:patches

I have listed the conditional expression support as an open task:

http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/dev:tasks#conversionsupport_for_conditional_expressions

Jan

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