On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Christian Couder
<christian.cou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah. If the libification movement is going strong, we can start
>> converting and at some point should be able to define
>> NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS globally (and avoid the_index along
>> the way)
>>
>> Without that, there is a risk. I looked at 'nm apply.o | grep ' [Uu]
>> '' and I don't see any external functions that would potentially
>> access the index, except ll_merge. Again there's a good chance I may
>> have missed something.
>>
>>> So it looks like it is a very big and different project to make the
>>> current libified code be explicit about which index it is using.
>>> And by the way perhaps this other project should just remove the
>>> "the_index" global altogether.
>>
>> This is probably the way to go. But it's the boring sort of work that
>> nobody wants to do :(
>
> Do you mean that it might be a source of micro-projects for the next
> GSoC or Outreachy? ;-)

No that's what I meant by boring. This is not something to interest
GSoC candidates, and while it looks simple, sometimes it needs a good
understanding of git overall, and it's definitely not small enough for
a micro project. It's very similar to i18n-izing the code base.
Luckily Vasco Almeida came out of nowhere and did (still do) that.
There may be another Vasco somewhere ;-)
-- 
Duy
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