Hi Perry,
I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate efforts, there aren't many
people working on the core itself.
What you could do to start out, is to run the rubyspecs in spec/frozen/
language, as they should all run iirc, but there are some tagged ones.
To run spec all which are tagged as failing:
./mspec/bin/mspec run -I./lib -B ./spec/macruby.mspec -g fails ./spec/
frozen/language --format spec
(Actually, right now there's one causing a segfault.)
You can then verify that the spec is valid for 1.9.x (HEAD), if not it
should be updated, if it is then MacRuby should be fixed. I think this
is a great way to start on the C parts of MacRuby.
Besides the fails tag there are also specs tagged as critical, which
will segfault etc. So there's actually a nice list of places that need
to be fixed :) Be sure to check out the mspec-tag script to list all
tagged specs.
HTH,
Eloy
On 29 jun 2009, at 15:46, Perry Smith wrote:
I'm an old crusty C programmer. I have a masters in CS and my focus
was languages and compilers. MacRuby and LLVM are really exciting
to me. I use a Mac. Working with Ruby since 2006. Love Rails. etc
etc.
I saw a previous thread in the archive where a newbie wanted to
help and the reply was to help with testing. Thats fine. I'm
worried about duplicate effort . Maybe split off some bugs / test
cases I can work on? Most of my work will be during the weekends
but I think I'd like to start setting things up during this week.
Take care,
Perry
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