[Soc-coordination] Declarative Diversions - Report 4

[Sam Dunne]

DECLARATIVE DIVERSIONS
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REPORT 4 - 30th July 2011
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This is the forth report for declarative diversions for debian as part
of Google Summer of Code.


WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE LAST TIME
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A lot has happened since my last report. For the most part near all the code has
been written. I have spent a lot of time writing this code, testing it and
trying to debug it. However, Steve, Guillem and Raphaël have helped a great deal
and without them there is no way my code would be as advanced as it is.


PLANS FOR THE COMING FUTURE
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The plans for the next week is to integrate the code Guillem repurposed from
parse.c to do the parsing for our diversion control files. Once this has been
achieved I will have a good look at using the existing diversions structure to
store the linked lists etc. However at this point I think my structure
may be the
best option as it is a lot easier to use/implement. But this will have to be
discussed furthur.
Hopefully all of the above will be achieved this week along with any testing we
need to do.


WHAT I FOUND HARD
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What I have found difficult up to now has been linked lists. I have used them in
college but briefly and they weren't explained very well. Steve has been a great
help with this concept and I would now say I understand it quite well.


WHAT HAS GONE WELL
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The past week has been the best week of the program so far. Code and concepts
seem to be falling in to place a lot better than the previous weeks
and I believe
that I have made good progress.


CONTACT ME
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Anyone who wishes to discuss the project with me can either mail me through
the mailing list, catch me on IRC (SCD[Eire]) or email me at
sam.dunne101 at gmail.com

My blog:    http://blog.sam-dunne.com
My Github:  https://github.com/samdunne/dpkg-diversions

My code is located in '/lib/dpkg' in the 'testing' branch of my code. The files
are 'divert.c' and 'divert.h'

*Note* - You will have to also checkout '/lib/dpkg/div_test/' folder for my code
to work


BRIEF NOTE TO GUILLEM
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This is *finally* plain text :P


Until next time,
~Sam