[GSoC] Proposal accepted

[Matthias Paulmier]

Hello everyone,

I am very glad to announce that my proposal has been accepted ! I will
be working this summer on modularizing Automake and improving its test
suite.

The community bonding period starts today until May the 14th. I will be
a bit busy this week with my final exams (I failed to mention it in my
proposals since I didn't realize those two things would overlap). My
exams end on Friday.

As explained in my proposal, I will dedicate this period to familiarize
myself with the Perl programming language as well as Automake's code. If
anyone has any tips on how to setup my environment for it I will gladly
take them :) (I'm using Debian GNU/Linux testing and Emacs as my
editor). I am also looking for good resources on Perl.

I am looking forward to hearing about your suggestions to get started in the
best way possible.

Regards,
--
Matthias Paulmier

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello Matthias,

Post by Matthias Paulmier
I am very glad to announce that my proposal has been accepted ! I will
be working this summer on modularizing Automake and improving its test
suite.

Congrats.

Post by Matthias Paulmier
The community bonding period starts today until May the 14th. I will be
a bit busy this week with my final exams (I failed to mention it in my
proposals since I didn't realize those two things would overlap). My
exams end on Friday.

No problem.

Post by Matthias Paulmier
As explained in my proposal, I will dedicate this period to familiarize
myself with the Perl programming language as well as Automake's code. If
anyone has any tips on how to setup my environment for it I will gladly
take them :) (I'm using Debian GNU/Linux testing and Emacs as my
editor). I am also looking for good resources on Perl.

It depends on your preference but basically Emacs has 2 major modes for Perl:

- perl-mode
- cperl-mode

‘perl-mode’ is the default but you can use ‘cperl-mode’ by adding the
following to your “.emacs”:

(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)

I found it nice to have an interactive interpreter when programming with
perl. In emacs you can run ‘M-x perldb <RET> perl -d -e ''’ for that.

One important point and not solved yet will be to use tags to navigate
to the definition of a particular subroutine easily. I will take a look
if the ‘make tags’ result can be fixed. For now you can use ‘M-x
rgrep‘.

In term of documentation Perl comes with an extensive set of manpages
which consist of tutorials and reference manuals. In Emacs they can
conveniently be accessed with ‘M-x man <RET> perl’. ‘perlintro(1)’ is a
good entry point. You can take a look at the “Learning Perl” book by
Tom Phoenix and Randal Schwartz too.

In order to discover Automake, the best you can do at the beginning is
to compile it (from Git) and report unclear points. It will be
important to broadly understand Automake from a user perspective before
the coding period, so you can alternate your perl discovery with some
experimentation with Automake by following Automake info manual.

If you have any questions or difficulty in your discovery, you can ask
on the #autotools IRC channel on Freenode or directly to me (my pseudo
is ‘mthl’).

HTH,

[Matthias Paulmier]

Post by Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Matthias,

Post by Matthias Paulmier
I am very glad to announce that my proposal has been accepted ! I will
be working this summer on modularizing Automake and improving its test
suite.

Congrats.

Post by Matthias Paulmier
The community bonding period starts today until May the 14th. I will be
a bit busy this week with my final exams (I failed to mention it in my
proposals since I didn't realize those two things would overlap). My
exams end on Friday.

No problem.

Post by Matthias Paulmier
As explained in my proposal, I will dedicate this period to familiarize
myself with the Perl programming language as well as Automake's code. If
anyone has any tips on how to setup my environment for it I will gladly
take them :) (I'm using Debian GNU/Linux testing and Emacs as my
editor). I am also looking for good resources on Perl.

- perl-mode
- cperl-mode
‘perl-mode’ is the default but you can use ‘cperl-mode’ by adding the
(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)

Nice, I guess I will decide which one I prefer when I use it.

Just after sending this I realized that there is a .dir-locals.el file
that sets up these modes to follow the project's styling conventions
which is convenient.

Post by Mathieu Lirzin
I found it nice to have an interactive interpreter when programming with
perl. In emacs you can run ‘M-x perldb <RET> perl -d -e ''’ for that.
One important point and not solved yet will be to use tags to navigate
to the definition of a particular subroutine easily. I will take a look
if the ‘make tags’ result can be fixed. For now you can use ‘M-x
rgrep‘.
In term of documentation Perl comes with an extensive set of manpages
which consist of tutorials and reference manuals. In Emacs they can
conveniently be accessed with ‘M-x man <RET> perl’. ‘perlintro(1)’ is a
good entry point. You can take a look at the “Learning Perl” book by
Tom Phoenix and Randal Schwartz too.

I got myself a copy of "Learning Perl" from the university's library. I
will also have a look at the resources suggested in Vishal's thread.

The tutorials and man pages from the perl documentations will be very
helpful too.

Post by Mathieu Lirzin
In order to discover Automake, the best you can do at the beginning is
to compile it (from Git) and report unclear points. It will be
important to broadly understand Automake from a user perspective before
the coding period, so you can alternate your perl discovery with some
experimentation with Automake by following Automake info manual.

Will definitely do that.

Post by Mathieu Lirzin
If you have any questions or difficulty in your discovery, you can ask
on the #autotools IRC channel on Freenode or directly to me (my pseudo
is ‘mthl’).

Cool, I looked for #automake on Freenode but didn't think about
#autotools... I will check in (probably through matrix in the first
place because I may often loose connection) as 'mattplm'.

Thanks
--
Matthias Paulmier