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| author | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2010-03-27 13:14:28 +0100 |
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| committer | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2010-03-27 17:35:34 +0100 |
| commit | f36cdb3cafb743de763ed217ef3260c12b15ab2d (patch) | |
| tree | 81971f56964f1e643d4891408c7b0c4269ab8452 /community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn | |
| parent | ea9e81001100ebd3f7c00a7854e5d03f554fa919 (diff) | |
gsoc/ideas: grow a Python option to the former Perl task
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2ecfe106 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Improving Perl or Python Support"]] + +Perl and Python are available on the Hurd, but there are quite a lot of test suite +failures. These could be caused by problems in the system-specific +implementation bits of Perl/Python, and/or shortcomings in the actual system +functionality which Perl/Python depends on. + +The student applying for this project can pick either Perl or Python, +whichever he is more comfortable with. +(Perl is higher priority though; and there are more failures too.) + +The goal then is to fix all of the problems with the chosen language if possible, or at +least some of them. Some issues might require digging quite deep into Hurd +internals, while others are probably easy to fix. + +Note that while some Perl/Python knowledge is probably necessary to understand what +the test suite failures are about, the actual work necessary to fix these +issues is mostly C programming -- in the implementation of Perl/Python and/or the +Hurd. + +Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) + +Exercise: Make some improvement to Perl/Python support on the Hurd, e.g. fixing one of +the known test suite failures. |