Re: [Plplot-devel] New binding of Go programming language

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2014-01-24 17:08+0800 Hailiang Wang wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> The hard part turns out to be not parsing api.xml but restoring a C
> type declaration from gccxml's type structure, but anyway I have done
> it. Yeah!
>
> I'd better put the result in the attachment (log.txt) because it is
> much longer now.
>
> Hǎiliàng

Hi Hǎiliàng:

Thanks very much for implementing the type checking that I requested. 
The resulting report you attached will be extremely helpful.  I will try to write
documentation of the remaining undocumented functions (now down to 4
with revision 12957) and deal with all the various kinds of argument
list mismatches you found in the next day or so.

I would like to be able to run your checker myself (immediately to be
able to test that I am solving the outstanding issues in your current
report one by one without introducing new issues, but also in the
future as an integrated part of the PLplot build system to allow us to
check any further plplot.h and/or api.xml changes).

Would you be willing to write a README file at
https://github.com/hailiang/go-plplot/tree/master/c/check that would
help a Go Newbie like me to run your checker?  The questions that file
should answer are what files should be copied from
https://github.com/hailiang/go-plplot into the svn trunk version of
PLplot, what Linux packages need to be installed to run the checker,
the exact command that should be used to run the checker, and the
prompts to expect. (I assume from looking at main.go the checker will
ask for the locations of plplot.h and api.xml, but it would be nice
for the README to confirm that.)

Alan
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