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Regarding GSoC 2012

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Aashish Mittal
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Hello everyone,
I am Aashish Mittal, a student of Computer Engineering from Sardar Patel College of Engineering, India. I aspire to take part in GSoC 2012 with Scala as my mentoring organization.
I have participated in GSoC 2010 and GSoC 2011 under Sakai Foundation and Code for America respectively. For Sakai Foundation, I created a subsystem ‘Event Explorer’ [0] which provided as analytical dashboard for the system events generated to be used by the software administrators and for Code for America I created a call center application (Open311 on Joget [1]) focused on providing cost-affordable CRM options to various cities. Both projects used Java as the core programming language. 
I am a core Java developer and a big enthusiast of open-source technologies. I have used some time learning Scala and am very interested to dig deeper and contribute to this community.
I have gone through the initial steps of getting myself familiar with the language and getting the source code and building it. I would like to mention that currently on getting the latest source form svn repository and building it, I am getting some errors in  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ComboBox.scala and  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ListView.scala due to which the build is failing. Am I missing something?
I have gone through the documentation and the guide for Scala developers. I would like to start with fixing some bugs/issues.
I would appreciate some suggestions and guidelines on the same and any tips for proceeding with my path into the community.
Thanks in advance.

[0] - https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/KERN-717+Event+Explorer
[1] - http://codeforamerica.org/2011/09/09/ashishs-cfa-summer-starting-the-open311-center/

Regards,
Aashish

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Simon Ochsenreither
Joined: 2011-07-17,
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Re: Regarding GSoC 2012
Hi Aashish,

I am getting some errors in  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ComboBox.scala and  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ListView.scala due to which the build is failing. Am I missing something?
You are probably trying to build Scala against Java 7. Try the openjdk-branch, or use Java 6 to compile the library.

A good start would be to look at the issue tracker. One well-known issue is the mssing/too short API documentation at many places. :-)

Bye,

Simon
Simon Ochsenreither
Joined: 2011-07-17,
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Re: Regarding GSoC 2012
Hi Aashish,

I am getting some errors in  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ComboBox.scala and  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ListView.scala due to which the build is failing. Am I missing something?
You are probably trying to build Scala against Java 7. Try the openjdk-branch, or use Java 6 to compile the library.

A good start would be to look at the issue tracker. One well-known issue is the mssing/too short API documentation at many places. :-)

Bye,

Simon
Aashish Mittal
Joined: 2012-01-21,
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Re: Re: Regarding GSoC 2012
Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion.
As per the instruction, I made the change to java 6 and it worked fine. Later I encountered an error in build.xml (line 934) stating that the class 'scala.tools.ant.ScalaTool' could not be found using AntClassLoader. I made some changes in the build.xml taskdef and passed it. Now I am facing on another error stating:
'A class needed by class scala.tools.partest.PartestTask cannot be found: scala/tools/ant/sabbus/CompilationPathProperty using the classloader AntClassLoader'. 
I could not find this class manually in the repository. Kindly guide if I am on the right track.
Thanks,Aashish
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Simon Ochsenreither <simon.ochsenreither@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Aashish,

I am getting some errors in  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ComboBox.scala and  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ListView.scala due to which the build is failing. Am I missing something?
You are probably trying to build Scala against Java 7. Try the openjdk-branch, or use Java 6 to compile the library.

A good start would be to look at the issue tracker. One well-known issue is the mssing/too short API documentation at many places. :-)

Bye,

Simon



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Aashish Mittal
Joined: 2012-01-21,
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Re: Re: Regarding GSoC 2012
Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion.
As per the instruction, I made the change to java 6 and it worked fine. Later I encountered an error in build.xml (line 934) stating that the class 'scala.tools.ant.ScalaTool' could not be found using AntClassLoader. I made some changes in the build.xml taskdef and passed it. Now I am facing on another error stating:
'A class needed by class scala.tools.partest.PartestTask cannot be found: scala/tools/ant/sabbus/CompilationPathProperty using the classloader AntClassLoader'. 
I could not find this class manually in the repository. Kindly guide if I am on the right track.
Thanks,Aashish
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Simon Ochsenreither <simon.ochsenreither@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Aashish,

I am getting some errors in  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ComboBox.scala and  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ListView.scala due to which the build is failing. Am I missing something?
You are probably trying to build Scala against Java 7. Try the openjdk-branch, or use Java 6 to compile the library.

A good start would be to look at the issue tracker. One well-known issue is the mssing/too short API documentation at many places. :-)

Bye,

Simon



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Hubert Plociniczak
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Re: Re: Regarding GSoC 2012
On 01/24/2012 02:58 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote:
emtuVbOHrSTzUZqE_gnLwgxKzF1-8xZ-j2306A [at] mail [dot] gmail [dot] com" type="cite"> Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion.
As per the instruction, I made the change to java 6 and it worked fine. Later I encountered an error in build.xml (line 934) stating that the class 'scala.tools.ant.ScalaTool' could not be found using AntClassLoader. I made some changes in the build.xml taskdef and passed it. Now I am facing on another error stating:
'A class needed by class scala.tools.partest.PartestTask cannot be found: scala/tools/ant/sabbus/CompilationPathProperty using the classloader AntClassLoader'. 
I could not find this class manually in the repository. Kindly guide if I am on the right track.

svn repository is obsolete. See github https://github.com/scala/scala.

hubert

emtuVbOHrSTzUZqE_gnLwgxKzF1-8xZ-j2306A [at] mail [dot] gmail [dot] com" type="cite">
Thanks, Aashish
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Simon Ochsenreither <simon [dot] ochsenreither [at] googlemail [dot] com" rel="nofollow">simon.ochsenreither@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Aashish,

I am getting some errors in  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ComboBox.scala and  C:\scala\src\swing\scala\swing\ListView.scala due to which the build is failing. Am I missing something?
You are probably trying to build Scala against Java 7. Try the openjdk-branch, or use Java 6 to compile the library.

A good start would be to look at the issue tracker. One well-known issue is the mssing/too short API documentation at many places. :-)

Bye,

Simon



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