Hi Chris, On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 08:54:02PM +0100, Chris wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:17 -0400, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello,
> > I have added an initial draft of my application to the GSoC > > project to > > the wiki, this is the proposal > > ( http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/DeclarativeDiversions ) > > and > > this is my application > > ( > > http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/DeclarativeDiversions/ChristopherBaines > > ). > > Please tell me what you think? > > I had a quick look at your proposal. I encourage you to further study > > the subject and come up with precise details about how you'd go about > > implementing the diversions. Since you already worked on dpkg code, I > > think this is accessible to you. > I have made some minor additions to my proposal, if any additional > technical details are needed just ask. > Before, for the Google Code In project, I worked on one of the perl > scripts. However this project would require work on the main program > written in c, I have not worked on this part before, and as such finding > the relevant parts is more difficult. As I just noted to another student expressing interest in this proposal <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2011-March/000937.html>,, most of the code related to dpkg diversions can be found in src/divertdb.c and src/processarc.c. A grep of the code for 'divert' and 'diversions' is probably a good place to start looking around, in general. :-) Your application mentions that you would be taking some time to brush up on your programming and C before the SoC begins. What past C programming experience do you have? Are you comfortable with the language? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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