(CL Net SNMP) New plan on SNMP package

[Chun T. (binghe) <bin...@gm...>]

Hi, cl-net-snmp-general

Finally I have a plan to get alive without ZEBU.

I create a standalone ASN.1 "compiler" sub-project [1], this package  
will be two part: a runtime support and a "compiler". Using this  
package, I can translate ASN.1 MIB files into Common Lisp source code  
which presents ASN.1 definitions in CLOS. Then I'll move all BER  
encode/decode facility into this ASN.1 package, to leave SNMP package  
[2] only have core SNMP function. This ASN.1 package will lead my  
working on IPMI and LDAP much easier.

The ASN.1 package did not use ZEBU to parse ASN.1 syntax. Instead, I  
just use Common Lisp readtable to be a ASN.1 lexer (see it's  
reader.lisp), and LispWorks' ParserGen package to be a LALR parser.  
Since I didn't use a portable LALR parser, the compiler part will only  
for LispWorks, but the result (ASN.1->Lisp) code can be compiled on  
any Common Lisp implementation. So, in my next SNMP package release,  
all platform can use MIB for ASN.1 OID name resolve and other new  
features.

Regards,

Chun Tian (binghe)

[1] https://cl-net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cl-net-snmp/asn.1/trunk
[2] https://cl-net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cl-net-snmp/snmp/trunk