Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Brian Bourn
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:03:41PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: > >> > What do they do, what does the caller expect to see (do they get >> > something as return values? do they expect some side effects?)? >> >> so something like this would be bette

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:03:41PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: > > What do they do, what does the caller expect to see (do they get > > something as return values? do they expect some side effects?)? > > so something like this would be better I'm assuming? > > Some basic sample API calls are foun

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Brian Bourn
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Brian Bourn writes: > >> Something like this? >> >> Sample api calls >> Add_Opt_Group() >> Parse_with_contains() >> Parse_with_merged() >> Parse_with_no_merged() >> Parse_with_formatting() >> (each of the 4 calls above may have internal cal

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Brian Bourn writes: > Something like this? > > Sample api calls > Add_Opt_Group() > Parse_with_contains() > Parse_with_merged() > Parse_with_no_merged() > Parse_with_formatting() > (each of the 4 calls above may have internal calls within the library > in order to parse the option for each of the

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Brian Bourn
Parts of v2, once again, i'd love some more comments on what I've rewritten On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: > >> Going through the annals of the listserve thus far I've found a few >> discussions which provide some

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-20 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: > Going through the annals of the listserve thus far I've found a few > discussions which provide some insight towards this process as well as > some experimental patches that never seem to have made it > through[1][2][3][4] Reading the

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-20 Thread Brian Bourn
Hello again, Please it would be very helpful for me to get some comments on this proposal I would be very grateful towards anyone who could take some time to look at it, even if it's just the wording. Regards, Brian Bourn On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Brian Bourn wrote: > Hi all, > > This is

[RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-20 Thread Brian Bourn
Hi all, This is a first draft of my Proposal for GSoC, I'd love feedback about what I might be missing and any other files I should read regarding this, so far I have read most of tag.c, branch.c, builtin/for-each-ref.c, parse-options.c. once again I hope I can get the same amount of helpful feedb