Re: [Info-gnuprologjava] GSoC project - Prolog for Java

[Daniel Thomas]

Hello Paweł Schmidt,

The responsibility for the very brief bug descriptions is mine.
Essentially the parser does not work properly and needs rewriting so in
terms of things to learn then learning about how to write parsers using
compiler compilers is probably a good place to start. To implement this
project you would need access to the Prolog specification which I can
probably arrange but that is not needed to get started.

There are also other project ideas on
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2012.html#prolog

If you want to apply for a project then I would like to see a patch
submitted against the current GNU Prolog for Java code, there might be
something on https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnuprologjava which
you think looks suitable or you could improve the tests or find
something else you want to make better. It might also be worth looking
in the archives for what I said to people on previous years:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnuprologjava/

Best regards,

Daniel

On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 02:56 +0200, Paweł Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a M.Sc. student pursuing a Computer Science degree at the
> University of Wrocław. I am familiar with both Prolog and Java as I
> finished a few courses taught at my university. I have a basic
> knowledge of parsers and interpreters.
> 
> I want to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013 project and I
> think working on Prolog for Java is a good choice for me.
> 
> I'd like to know more about things that should be done. Unfortunately,
> descriptions of bugs #30780 and #30283 are very short.
> Please tell me what I should learn before participating in this project.
> 
> Best regards,
> Paweł Schmidt
>

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