Re: [ccmtools-devel] back on the component development track

[Leif J. <le...@am...>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Egon Teiniker wrote:

> Hey Leif,
>
> welcome back to ccmtools!

Thanks ! : )

I took a look at your updates when I was merging with my changes, things
are looking great. Thanks for fixing up the parameter const/& stuff in the
CppLocalGeneratorImpl::getLanguageType function !

> - Remote C++ component envronment (based on mico 2.3.10) can be installed
>   using the ccmtools-c++remote-environment script.

Good stuff.

> - I fixed some bugs in the IDL2 Generator. The generator creates a
>   Makefile to handle the mico idl compiler call - as long as confix can
>   handle idl files...

Excellent. I noticed your fixes, they look great to me. I renamed one
function in the IDL2GeneratorImpl class to ``finalize'' ; just seemed to
fit into the interface better.

I also updated the IDL test-loader.sh script ; it wasn't working well for
me so I basically made it more like the C++ test-loader.sh script. Still
not sure if it's working right though.

> - The CppRemoteGenerator can handle components with basic types (long,
>   double, string etc.). I tested the attribute_basic_types,
>   supports_basic_types and supports_basic_types examples.

Rock ! I should catch up on the python wrapper generator.

> - There is a simpe CppRemoteTestGenerator that is a remote Component
>   server and client in one _check_*_remote.cc file. Thus, confix can run
>   two tests after creating a remote component, one for the local
>   component and one for the remote one.

That's also good news. This generator is integrated into the
ccmtools-c++-generate script as well ?

> - I think we can release the ccmtools-0.3.2 end of the next week...

Yay ! We'll see how the bug hunting goes. I might not be ready yet, but a
new release is coming up soon. More hits on sourceforge ...

> - There are still bugs in the IDL3 Parser I have not fixed yet. I will
>   write some bug reports next week.

OK. I've tried to get the ones I know about ; please test with the updated
idl3.g file that I've just checked in. I also added Haubi's example IDL
file as a test. I couldn't figure out how to get one-character identifiers
that look like hex numbers (a-f and A-F) to work right, but the others are
working ok.

> Another project on ccmtools is comming up. Robert, a master student in
> Graz is working on a 'Design by Contract' extension for local components.
> We use OCL to define constraints for IDL interfaces...

Sounds cool.

Have to run, the cafe here is closing. Happy coding !

leif

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