On 3/21/12 6:48 PM, HolyCause wrote:
Jacek,
Perhaps there would be needed some temporary hacks that would allow mixing new and old parsing code while it's rewritten part by part. I think such a project would be good, as long as student is prepared to deal with this.
I'm not sure we want to promote larger tasks on cmd, such as GSoC project, before parser work is done.
These statements seem contradictory, but I might be missing something. Could you please elaborate?
In the second quote I was talking about projects related to cmd that are not parser rewrite. I think rewriting parser is a good project (with the big warning that coding is not the only chalenge here, getting it committed is tricky). The mixing that I was talking about in the first quote is that, if possible, new parser should be integrated incrementally, so there would be a mix of old and new code in a middle of work.
Cheers, Jacek