Re: bug-gnuzilla Digest, Vol 3, Issue 6

[arnuld]

> On 15/11/06, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:

> Call me Giu if you like :)

ok thanks, Giu :-)

> > 1.) i know some Common Lisp from http://gigamonkeys.com/book. did 1st
> > 22 chapters only. i never did any real-life coding :-(

> Great language but it is not used in IceWeasel, maybe we can consider to
> implement and use it :)

if it can solve some problems that you are facing then it will be
great to have it.


> Mozilla Firefox is written in C++ so it will be useful to know it, anyway
> our work is based more on checking files and basic scripting, I remember I
> worked on php and javascript files too without consider makefiles.  If you
> can help on C++ it would be good but at the moment there is not much to do.

:-(

> > 3.) Heck...i dont even know C
> Chapters 4 and 5 of Stroustrup are almost C.  Learn some standard library
> functions and how write dirty code and you will be a good C developer :)

i know & understand most of 1st 5 chapters. so you say i dont neeed K&R2?

> > 4.) and i want to contribute *only* by doing coding. i want to become
> > "BUG-fixer Lord" :-)

> I doubt we will have many bugs considering our small modifications to the
> original Mozilla source code, in case we find a bug in the original source
> code it is better to send the patch directly to them.  If you want to discover
> bugs I suggest you to start to use IceWeasel and see if something goes wrong.
> What GNU/Linux distribution do you use?

i use IceWeasel, i dont use Firefox. at the moment ther is only one
trouble i see. SVG support. should i do some coding to add SVG support
or do i need reverse engineering ( isay as SVG is from Adobe & i only
guess that will be proprietary, i am just guessing). BTW IceWeasel is
based on Firefox 1.5.0.7 which has  SVG support.

> > 5.) check my old post here:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2006-10/msg00091.html

> Read :)

thanks

> > reply me if i am of any use (also reply, if i am not of any use.  in
> > this case please, please provide some explanation, if you have some
> > time :0)

> As you see I had time to reply and say you are useful :)


Oh my goodness. thanks for the compliement ;-)


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