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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index a51393f1..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 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"]] - -<!-- See also open_issues/perl and open_issues/python. --> - -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: Take a stab at one of the testsuite failures, -and write a minimal testcase exposing the underlying problem. -Actually fixing it would be a bonus of course -- -but as it's hard to predict which issues will be easy and which will be tricky, -we will already be satisfied if the student makes a good effort. -(We hope to see some discussion of the problems in this case though :-) ) |