James, Thanks for getting back to me. I have taken a look at some of the source so I am some-what familiar with it. I guess there are two things that I think I could use to help get started; first, is there a recommended environment for working with the source? I'm not a Java developer so I am not really familiar with the available toolsets/IDEs for developers with a, um, restricted budget.
Lastly, not being a Java developer some of the libraries referenced by Abdera are foreign to me, like Axiom/StAX, etc. so I'm finding it a little difficult finding a good starting point for development. My plan is to, at least right now, start looking at the JUnit tests and start working forward from there - but the question then becomes where to start testing...Maybe these are all questions once I can spend some more time looking at the source. One thing I would like comments on (as if I haven't asked enough questions already) is what your thoughts are on which runtime version to target (.NET 1.1 vs 2.0). I couldn't conclusively determine if the Mono compilers support the new language features of C# 2.0. I feel .NET 2.0 would be a better target given the intrinsic support for XML Encryption/Security and significant performance improvements to the XML reading/parsing/etc. library and while I would like this implementation to be Mono-compatible, this may just be a matter of crawl-walk-run. Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Harris On 9/25/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Harris, Having a .NET implementation would be quite welcome. The best way to get started would be to just start working on the code. Garrett and Paul (our project mentors) know more about the procedures for accepting code donations in a project more than I so I'd recommend consulting with either of them. - James Harris Boyce III wrote: > Greetings, > > My name is Harris Boyce; I contacted Mr. Snell earlier this weekend > (22 Sept) about beginning a .NET implementation of Abdera. As I > mentioned to him in my e-mail, while I do not have much experience > with Open Source development, I have been researching Atom and Abdera > for the past few months and this project really interests me and I > would like to contribute to this project. > > While I have looked over a few of the files, I haven't really had the > time to get a complete understanding of the architecture. So, I > suppose that's a good place to start. I hope that we can start > discussing the design of the framework and how to achieve the > appropriate analogs in a .NET implementation. > > I explained to Mr. Snell that I have about 2 nights a week that I am > able to commit to this project. I hope that is alright as I have > personal/family commitments the rest of the week. I look forward to > working with everyone and that we can work together to further Atom > and Abdera on the Web. > > Harris Boyce >
