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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index bfe1968e..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Improving Perl Support"]] - -Perl is available on the Hurd, but there are quite a lot of test suite -failures. These could be caused by problems in the system-specific -implementation bits of Perl, and/or shortcomings in the actual system -functionality which Perl depends on. - -The goal of this project is to fix all of these problems if possible, or at -least some of them. Some issues might require digging quite deep into Hurd -internals, while others are probably easy to fix. - -Note that while some Perl knowledge is probably necessary to understand what -the test suite failures are about, the actual work necessary to fix these -issues is mostly C programming -- in the implementation of Perl and/or the -Hurd. - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: Make some improvement to Perl support on the Hurd, e.g. fixing one of -the known test suite failures. |