Hi Matheus!
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 15:44:02 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 13:27:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
No one wants to work on GDC/LDC, so they shall remain obscure
in
development and tailing behind current development.
Please could you tell more about the requirements/background
that a person needs to fill this work?
I'm programmer for a while now, I wrote some: Business Systems
(Job), games and small interpreters (Hobby) etc. But I always
thought about contributing on my spare time, but I don't know
how I could fill on this work.
Matheus.
For LDC it should be quite easy. :-)
First, build LDC from source. Instructions are here:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source. Building LLVM
from source it not a requirement but helps in tracking down
problems.
If you master this step then you can choose a problem to tackle.
Personally, I started with a merge of latest DMD frontend. This
will be a round trip through the source because of possible merge
conflicts. (For sure, the result can be contributed as a pull
request.)
Another simple way to get started is to pick an open issue - see
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues. Fire up the
debugger, set a breakpoint and step through the code and try
identifying the root cause...
IMHO the only requirement is some knowledge of C++ (and having
fun reading source and coding!). But even if you only know D (or
only want to code in D) then there are some open tasks. If you or
anybody else is interested in this please ask in the LDC
newsgroup.
Regards,
Kai
