Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/05/11/09:12:58
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:28:43 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
>
> Now that 2.03 has shipped, I see no reason not to start making these
> features-in-CVS.
Yes, definitely.
> If we can come to some consensus about who should be
> allowed to check things in (history, reliability, quality, etc), I'm
> willing to add some more people to that list to spread the work
> around.
Yes, please!
> I'm sure Eli is tired of being "it" from the 2.03 work :-)
Not tired, just terribly swamped, both by DJGPP-related work (other
than djdev) and on my daytime job. I have a gazillion djdev-related
items on my todo, but no time to do them...
Here are a few items to keep in mind by those who will work on djdev:
- there are a couple of bugs filed on the bug-tracker that should be
solved;
- please create src/docs/kb/wc204.txi (and a reference to it in
kb.txi), and put there a short description of each user-visible
change or bug-fix;
Some larger library-related projects that AFAIK are awaiting
volunteers:
- Internationalization (a.k.a. i18n) support. I think support for
UTF-8 in the wc* and mb* functions would be a useful first step.
- Support for functions added in glibc lately. It looks like the
GNU configure scripts are probing for lots of functionality we
don't have; it would be nice to add some of it.
- libc.info needs indices. The trivial part is to modify mkdoc.cc
so that it will generate @findex from @node. A less trivial part
is to go through the *.txh files and add index entries for global
variables, environment variables, and other features described in
the docs.
- C99 support. I know Martin is working on that, but this will need
much more than a single volunteer could handle. For example, the
new math functions are in themselves a large project.
- How about adding bzip2 support to DJTAR? Many developers nowadays
use .tar.bz2 at least for development snapshots, and it's a PITA
to go through the separate bunzip2 stage.
I have more projects to suggest, if someone is interested ;-).
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