Hello Vishal, Vishal Gupta <vishalgupta7...@gmail.com> writes:
> My proposal for the project " Parse Makefile.am using abstract syntax > tree" has been accepted and I am excited to start working on the same. Congrats! > The community bonding period will be till 14th May. As discussed in > the proposal, I will be working on improving my perl skills and > understanding the Automake's Code. Some queries about that : > > 1) Good resource for studying Perl and important concepts required for > completing the project. A short task of 4-5 days would be great for > testing my knowledge of perl and quantify my progress. Like I said to Matthias, Perl comes with an extensive set of manpages which consist of tutorials and reference manuals. ‘perlintro(1)’ is a good entry point. The “Learning Perl” book by Tom Phoenix and Randal Schwartz is a nice introduction to Perl. You will need to get familiar with perl references which is a somewhat advance topic in order to build recursive structure for the AST. To learn Perl I think it is important to have an interactive environment ‘perl -d -e ''’ is useful for that. > 2) How to go about understanding the Automake code . The first step is to compile it from the Git repository and report unclear points. I encourage you to get familiar with Automake from a user perspective by creating build definitions for some dummy C programs and libraries by following the Automake manual which is nicely written. > 3) Any other task required to be completed during the community bonding > period. I think, it is important that you get more familiar with Git usage and good practices before the coding period. There is a lot of resources online and particularly a great book freely available: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 > As discussed in the proposal that I will be having my exams from 8th > to 15th May, so I will try to complete the work before that time. No problem. If you have any question or difficulty in your discovery, you can ask on the #autotools IRC channel on Freenode or directly to me (my pseudo is ‘mthl’). I am not sure about your actual timezone (mine is UTC+2) but if you are from India don't expect me to available too soon in the morning. :-) HTH, -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
