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There seems something wrong with sourceforge. I am unable to read
following message properly at:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CBB7FC68-2DC8-47AA-AC2B-869870FFEFBA%40mac.com&forum_name=brlcad-devel

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Avneet Kaur wrote:
>
>> I am Avneet Kaur, student of Bachelor of Engineering(CSE). I found
>> project "Code Reduction" in BRL-CAD Ideas List that suits my interests
>> and skills.
>
> That is a perfectly viable project area, but know that particular project
> requires a lot of specificity. Not just that you're going

On SourceForge; the text typed by Sean up to above was there; and
following part is missing.

> to reduce code, but what code, how, why, etc.  Also, how will you ensure 
> nothing
> is broken?  Since refactoring aims to improve code quality, you'll need to
> capture metrics on the improvements you intend to make (before and after).
> I also recommend creating a patch so you know what you're getting into and
> so we know where your abilities are at reading code... ;)
>
>> I have done Reverse Engineering of DXF and made a library of DXF named
>> "libdxf_2D" in C++. It is available at github along with complete
>> documentation: https://github.com/Akaur/testing
>
> That's great.  Is there a reason you haven't considered a conversion project
> instead?  STEP support is a strong area of interest as is improving our dxf,
> obj, and other converters.  There's a ton listed at 
> http://brlcad.org/~sean/ideas.html
>
>> I was trying to submit a patch for a bug and found a following link:
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/bugs/335/
>
> There is also our BUGS file in your source checkout as well as the open
> GCI-tasks mentioned in an earlier discussion thread.  All make for viable
> patch topics.  You could also look into the issue reported here
> by Harmanpreet: 
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30726868
>
> It has a specific test case that reportedly fails.
>
>> I want to know if I remove duplicacy in one file, will it be accepted
>> as patch or not.
>
> That's a really vague question so, here's your vague answer:  "It depends."

;-)

The following efforts by Avneet are appreciable:

> I tried Simian tool as recommended at project ideas page to find code
> duplicacy. A quick run showed that there are 26913 duplicate lines in
> 2688 blocks in 349 cpp files.

Form the vague question and vague reply, I suggest Avneet need to
apply common sense to make a valid patch from all these vagueness ;-)

--
H.S.Rai

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