[Introspector-developers] Introspector Status Report 18 Nov. 2002

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

Dear Fellow Hackers,

The introspector project is approaching a major milestone in the GUI
area. Mike Garnsey and I have been busy hacking away at the
repackaging/re-porting of GTK+/DIA to Windows. We are using the mingw32
cross compiler under Debian GNU/Linux to create windows binaries.

The new packages are so easy to use, you can compile for windows under
debian with the familiar dpkg-buildpackage command, all the nasty work
is being done in the background.

Just this weekend, we have prepared the libart, Pango, and Atk for
testing. That leaves just the gdkpixbuf and GTK+ before we are done. As
you can imagine, a GUI will be of great value for the system.

Also, the FSF has stated that they are interested in the GNUVCG name,
and are considering adopting the VCG as a GNU project.

As soon as we have dia ported over, VCG will be the next step in
creating on of the most powerful software development tools in the free
software world.

The sourceforge server has been down for a move, and I have been in
contact with the debian-sf (debian sourceforge) project about finding a
new host. The server objectweb. http://debian-sf.objectweb.org/ might
be a possible new home, if not savannah itself.

I have done some review of the gcc interface code, the perl modules.
That needs alot of work, and I promise to tell you more about that real
soon now (tm). Basically we will be beefing up the class model with
more documentation, with links to the original gcc docs, and getting
the java interface up to speed. Via perls Inline::Java we should be
able to interface the perl and java code. By using a SAX parser, we can
be able to write modules directly in java as well.

More to come.

Mike

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

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