Re: [Cgdb-devel] New libraries for CGDB

[Ronald Landheer-C. <ro...@la...>]

Bob Rossi wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:42:33PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
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>>Bob Rossi wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>It's been a long time. However, some of the developers of CGDB are ready
>>>to start another round of development, which will make CGDB's interface
>>>much more VI compatible.
>>>
>>>There will be several new libraries created to ease the task of
>>>implementing CGDB. libkui will be one of them. This stands for "key user
>>>interface". It will be the library responsible for catching user
>>>commands. For example, when you hit "5Control-wj" in vim, you expect vim
>>>to move you down 5 windows. Well, libkui will be responsible for getting
>>>these sequences and returning what command the user requested.
>>>
>>>There will be several other libraries created and talked about in the
>>>near future. I am proposing we place all of the new libraries in
>>>cgdb/lib. This will be a new directory. Each library will get a
>>>directory in cgdb/lib. For example cgdb/lib/kui. Finally, each of these
>>>directories will have a src/ and inc/ which implements the library. So,
>>>for libkui I will add
>>> cgdb/lib
>>> cgdb/lib/kui
>>> cgdb/lib/kui/inc
>>> cgdb/lib/kui/src
>>>
>>>Does everyone think this is reasonable? If so, I'll add this
>>>infrastructure to the CGDB CVS tree.
>>>
>>>
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>>Seems reasonable enough to me, but for the time being, I'll keep to porting.
>>However, one thing that may be of interest for cgdb is the container 
>>library I wrote for Jail-ust (also on SourceForge) which I think will 
>>respond to the needs for a hashing implementation discussed here earlier.
>>If you check it out like this:
>>$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:an...@cv...:/cvsroot/jail-ust
>>$ cvs login
>>anoncvs
>>$ cvs co release-libcontain
>>you'll get the current version with all of its dependencies (libreplace 
>>and the architecture-dependent code)
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>Sorry for the long delay.
>
>This sounds interesting. Unfortunately, it was written in C++ and cgdb is
>written only in C. The reason CGDB is written in C is because we believe
>it should be able to port anywhere that GDB does. This way, it can be
>used in all the same environments.
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>Thanks,
>Bob Rossi
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A hash implementation in C is under development.
The only part actually written in C++ is the hash implementation - other 
parts of the library are written in C only.
If you want, I can bump the priority of a C-only implementation of the 
hash on my list of things to do.
(See also my next mail)

rlc