On May 5, 2012, at 10:52 PM, H.S.Rai wrote: > OS may be of your choice, but how Windows [ I guess you talk about > Microsoft's product, otherwise you may find windows in every OS, like > MAC, Linux ;-) ] give you better understanding. > > Or you expect that BenchMarking result vary with OS, and you intend to > do that also, though that is not the part of your project.
Anurag, you can certainly do most if not all of your development on Windows, but there is some setup required for running the BRL-CAD Benchmark suite on Windows. In particular, you'll need a posix shell interpreter along with a few shell tools one usually finds on a UNIX or Linux system (sed, awk, grep, cut, ...). If you're going to run on Windows, I'd suggest installing either mingw or cygwin so that you have the tools necessary (or use the Linux VM disk image). >> One more important non-technical question I have to ask is, should I keep >> sending in the reports and dev logs to the list or just keep updating my >> development log and update just the mentor ? > > Let us see, if there is any policy or practice followed, which may be > clear from response of List Members, IMO, you need to update your blog > daily, and if your have some query, issue do ask here. You definitely should update your dev log every day you do any work related to your gsoc project. You don't need to let the mailing list know every time you update unless -- as Rai noted -- you have a question. Any days you do not log are assumed to be days you did not work. Moreover, there are usually repository commits that are even more detailed. Once the coding timeframe begins, it's expected for most students that you'll not have more then three days of inactivity in your logs before we come chasing after you for slacking off... Hopefully we won't have to do that for *anyone* this year. ;-) > But you should not discuss anything with you mentor in private, every > thing needed to be in public on mailing list. Unless it's completely unrelated to coding -- like if your apartment burned down or you're going on vacation for four days. You only need to share personal matters with your mentor (and copy me), but all development matters should be public. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
