[haiku-development] Re: R1a4 -- possible?
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:03:36 +0100
Humdinger wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:28:31 +0100 Ingo Weinhold wrote:
[...]
> > As I wrote before, this is a lot of tedious work, since wrappers for
> > dozens
> > of POSIX and Haiku headers and their functionality need to be
> > written.
>
> I guess that all needs deep knowledge and isn't a suitable task for
> GSoC?
No, it doesn't require a lot of knowledge at all. It's mostly "mechanical" work
like rewriting copies of the headers in a certain way and implementing the
wrapper functions by converting the parameters and calling the respective build
platform functions. Save for a small subset of functions which cannot be easily
mapped, that is. For most of those code already exists and just needs to be
massaged into the new form. It is not a suitable GSoC task, however, since it
isn't *that* much work either. It's probably only a few days or maybe a week of
full-time work, just very boring work.
CU, Ingo
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