Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] GSoC Ending Soon

[Charles Turner]

On 13 August 2012 01:25, Jamison Hope <address@hidden> wrote:
> How do you think you're doing in terms of having a finished set
> of work to show on that day?

I'll have stuff to show, I'm still concerned about the presentation,
i.e., it being to monolithic. I'm guessing the one-and-only patch I
sent you a while back was too big to be seriously considered.  I'm not
sure how to make that one any smaller due to it mostly being a
movement of hundreds of type declarations from one file to another.

> I know we've diverged a bit from what was in your
> original proposal, and that's OK -- you've uncovered a lot of
> subtle problems with getting CL working that weren't apparent
> when you wrote it.

Yeah, I'll do my best to present the diversions in a sane way, so that
you can more easily judge whether I went too far awry.

> I know you're eager to get real software work done and you keep
> finding new stuff to do every time you finish a piece, but this
> week you should probably put new development on hold and finish
> up documenting what you've completed.

OK.

> The following week you can go back to hacking, just without
> monetary compensation. ;-)

I've been meaning to mention to you, I plan on taking a holiday around
Europe for a couple of weeks after the GSoC (GSoC success or not, this
isn't a plea to pass me!). The reason I bring it up is that it might
interfere with the merging process. I haven't bought any tickets or
anything concrete like that yet, thought I'd check first. Would it
cause too much disruption? Of course, as long as I'm not captured by
pirates or something, I look forward to continuing with Kawa when I
return.

I'll get something preliminary sent after I've learned whatever
subversion incantations are required to summon a diff against the main
Kawa tree.

Charles.