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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a22540a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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 Support"]] + +Perl is 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, and/or shortcomings in the actual system +functionality which Perl depends on. + +The goal of this project is to fix all of these problems 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 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 and/or the +Hurd. + +Possible mentors: + +Exercise: Make some improvement to Perl support on the Hurd, e.g. fixing one of +the known test suite failures. |