Xapian devel - Jul 2014 - c#/ java binding improvements

Hi,

I am a  Computer Science and Engineering student at University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka. I went through the project proposals of Xapian at Gsoc 2014. I
found the project "c# binding improvement", very attractive for me to
start
up with committing to open-source community. And then found that is is not
taken by any student. Please, some one can help me to start on this. I have
3 years coding experience with, c# and .net framework. Also Java, c and 1
year experience in c++. As I see this is a very simple one to start-up
with, I expect to go to java binding improvements as well.

Thank You.

*Best Regards*
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Hareendra C. Philips,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Morotuwa
Sri Lanka
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On 1 Jul 2014, at 14:49, Chamara Philips <chcphilips at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a  Computer Science and Engineering student at University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka. I went through the project proposals of Xapian at Gsoc 2014. I found
the project "c# binding improvement", very attractive for me to start
up with committing to open-source community. And then found that is is not taken
by any student. Please, some one can help me to start on this.
Hi, Chamara. Ultimately what you'll want to do will be to grab one of the
tickets listed in the project description
(http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:CBindingsImprovements),
such as http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/204, which if you read it notes that we
only have one remaining use of SWIGTYPE_p_*.

In order to work on the C# bindings (and that ticket in particular) you'll
need to get comfortable with SWIG, but I'd start off a little slower,
getting comfortable with the Xapian codebase and making sure you can build it on
your development machine. Our instructions for GSoC students
(http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC%20Guide) are mostly helpful here (except the
stuff about writing a proposal, which you obviously don't need to do). The
advice about choosing a "bite size" feature or bug to help get
familiar with the code is a really good one, and we're always happy for
people to submit improvements to Xapian.

Welcome!

J

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