[Introspector-developers] Status report

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

Hi all, 
Have been busy on a couple of fronts lately.

We currently have the following things running :

1. Setting up a port of to windows via the debian cross compiler
Mike Garnsey has been doing a great job on that, and is working on a
detailed status report.
He has also updated the sf task list and been doing lots of testing and
documentation. Thanks mike.

2. Restarting the VCG development, and porting to GTK (and to windows
via the Mingw32 port ). I have requested a GNUVCG project on
gnu.savannah.org, and we are awaiting the name approval from the fsf.
There have been some people interested in that who have joined the
list,
Malcolm Parsons has supplied some patches to that.

3. Setting up the GCC XML dumping of the Abstract syntax trees, this
will allow people to extract information from existing programs. We
will be checking the gcc AST-optimizer-branch into this cvs in the next
days. 
Mario Luca Bernardi has signed up for testing/maintaining that part,
when he is finished with his exams.

4. Creating an interface into Inline perl. I have some experimental
code to create inline code that gets sent to the patched gcc.

5. The cscc c# interface, I have been in contact with the pnet cscc
compiler writers. The Cscc will be provide all types of interesting
infomation about c# programs. I hope to provide an C# interface to the
gcc as well, because it allows a much more structured api than perl.

6. Bison, there is also an Bison XML patch that I want to share with
you.

7. The LIBXML/RDFLib interface to the metadata.
this component is in planning stage right now.

8. Creating a proper web page,
The current web pages are a mess, i know.
Many people have expressed interested in helping.

9. Source forge package management 
The http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide/ provides an upload capability
to sourceforge. I am trying to get that running so we can get the
packages automaticallly uploaded.

So as you can see there is alot going on in the background.
Also I have noticed that many new people have joined the list, if
anyone is interested in testing these tools or in helping out with any
on them, please make yourself known.

If anyone wants to take over the task managment for one of this
subprojects, please make yourself known.

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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