[L2Ork-dev] New developer interested in doing a GSOC18 project

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:28 AM, pranay gupta
<pranayguptastudent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Jonathan,
>
> I was still going through the code base. The project in particular which
> caught my interest was changing to double precision floating format. The
> major reason being that I was very fluent in C and C++. Also since this
> project involved an extensive knowledge of the code base I was taking my
> time going through it.

For the initial work on the "core" part of Purr Data there is a lot of
prior art and
documentation. As we get out into external libraries, things get more difficult
as we can no longer rely on documentation, code consistency and sometimes
even readability.

A good place to start is purr-data/pd/src/m_pd.h. That's the public header file
which has definitions for most of the types used in Purr Data. In particular
the PD_FLOATTYPE macro.

If only it was a matter of changing that from "float" to "double" this
would be a
short project. :)

-Jonathan

>
> Regards,
> Pranay Gupta
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Also-- did you have a particular project idea you are interest in
>> pursuing?
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:42 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello Pranay Gupta,
>> > Welcome!
>> >
>> > A good first step is to compile the software on your platform.
>> >
>> > The steps to do that are listed as part of the contributor guide here:
>> >
>> > https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data#contributor-guide
>> >
>> > You can also tackle one of the bugs labeled "good-first-bug" if you
>> > have some time. That will give you practice on how to merge a change
>> > into the Purr Data repository.
>> >
>> > Finally, the project ideas are here:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/summer-of-code-ideas-list/blob/master/README.md
>> >
>> >
>> > Let us know if you have any other questions.
>> >
>> > -Jonathan
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 4:04 PM, pranay gupta
>> > <pranayguptastudent at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I am Pranay, second year undergraduate student from IIIT Hyderabad. I
>> >> am
>> >> very much interested in working for purr-data and hopefully doing a
>> >> gsoc
>> >> project for purrdata as well. I am hereby writing this to seek for a
>> >> mentor
>> >> to help me get started with it and proceed further.  Thanks
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Pranay Gupta
>> >>
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