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[GSoC] Improvements for dstep
Aug 27, 2016
ciechowoj
Aug 28, 2016
bachmeier
Aug 28, 2016
Dicebot
August 27, 2016
Hi.

I would like to publish a report of my work for this year GSoC. Over the last few months, I've been making improvements and fixing bugs for dstep.

You can check out the changes I've made by following this link:

https://github.com/ciechowoj/dstep/commits/master?author=ciechowoj

Among other things, I added support for translation of preprocessor macros (#define ...), added support for translation of comments, fixed some formatting problems, fixed the most of the issues from the dstep's GitHub issue list, made dstep to work on Windows and added plenty of little improvements.

Almost all changes (two more PRs are awaiting review) are already merged with the main dstep repository. You can grab an up-to-date version from here:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

It was quite exciting experience for me, I've learned a lot about the D language (I wrote my first lines of the D code at the end of the last year). As for dstep, there is still some work that needs to be done, I'm going to continue to contribute to the project in foreseeable future.

All of this wouldn't have been possible without my mentor Russel Winder, our GSoC admin Craig Dillabaugh and dstep's author Jacob Carlborg, who reviewed tons of my code and helped with his advice. Great thanks for all of you for your support.

Best regards,
Wojciech Szęszoł
August 28, 2016
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 19:23:28 UTC, ciechowoj wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I would like to publish a report of my work for this year GSoC. Over the last few months, I've been making improvements and fixing bugs for dstep.

...

> Best regards,
> Wojciech Szęszoł

https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/4zxer7/improvements_to_dstep_a_tool_for_converting_c/
August 28, 2016
On 08/27/2016 10:23 PM, ciechowoj wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I would like to publish a report of my work for this year GSoC. Over the last few months, I've been making improvements and fixing bugs for dstep.
> 
> You can check out the changes I've made by following this link:
> 
> https://github.com/ciechowoj/dstep/commits/master?author=ciechowoj
> 
> ...

I have been following dstep improvements ciechowoj did and I must say it is a great job! The tool has become both smarter in terms of supported features and more reliable in terms of C headers it is capable of converting.

Keep rocking and good luck!