Dne stÅeda 30 bÅezna 2011 17:39:12 Thomas Rast napsal(a): > Jeff King wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Robert David wrote: > > > > As far as cleanup versus features, I think Thomas would have to > > > > comment on that. He is the one who did the most work on patch-mode, > > > > and therefore the one who most thinks it needs cleaned up. :) > > > > > > Is Thomas going to be a mentor in this task? > > > > I hope so. I can also co-mentor if it helps. > > I'm certainly ready; I didn't propose any projects that I would not > also mentor. (However, I won't mentor more than one...) Thank you for your attention. > > Note that while it's certainly a bonus, porting it to C probably makes > the project more difficult and time-consuming. We'll have to see in > the proposal timelines however. It is not a big problem to me. I plan to begin full time work on this in half June. Before that I plan some cleanups and fixes to simplify the upcoming porting. > > As for cleanup, my gut feeling right now is that the Perl code can > probably cope with incremental cleanups as required for each feature. > On the other hand, the C port should start from a clean redesign so as > to not rewrite it twice. I agree that porting to C should be done from scratch. Thats why I would clean and extend the script first to make a "preview". Than when it will comply with requirements, I will port that from scratch to C. Robert
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