Re: [Introspector-developers] current status

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

hey craig,
thanks for writing. Come and visit us on the #introspector
irc.openprojects.net for a chat.

--- "cr...@is..." <cr...@is...> wrote:
> Hey -
> 
> I've been looking at this and gccxml. It's a little hard for me to
> figure
> out what the current status of this project is. Will this work on
> win32?
yes it will, with cygwin, i have been testing with the 3.2, but the
berkley db support of redland is not dont on win32.

> Can you give me some pointers on how to navigate the CVS tree? It's a
> bit
> confusing.
yes, i am sorry about that, there is a readme.txt in the root, but the
first thing you need are the patches to the gcc in the
introspector/c_files

mario luca and I have been chatting about this, maybe he can post some
of the logs somewhere...

> 
> What I really want right now is a reflection toolkit for C++. I've
> tried
> developing one off and on for a bit, and it's always come down to
> requiring better compiler support. GCC seems the obvious choice, but
> when
yes, you could use the introspector for that, even now, using the c++
to read in the reflection data into c++ and processing it. but you
still have to process the node data into something more usefull.

> I started to look into this option (a couple years ago now), RMS sent
> me a
> 'cease and desist letter', which kinda took the wind out of my sails.
well i have had lots of interactions with RMS, he is just trying to
play politics. Most of the gcc guys dont like the idea of making
interfaces, but they will like it when we are done.

> I
> know this has been a long-standing debate, but I never got any clear
> answers except for 'RMS don't like it, and I'm tired of arguing with
> him
> about it', and RMS replying 'I don't have time to go into details, I
> just
> don't like it'. Oh well. It finally appears that there's enough
> momentum
> for this to finally get somewhere. :-)
yes, please do help. get yourself a Sourceforge account and mail it to
me.

> 
> I've looked into several related projects, including OpenC++, gccxml,
> and

> PDT (http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/pdtoolkit/), and
I might have seen this, but it is not free.

> Root
> (http://root.cern.ch/).
that is new

>  I'd be happy to try to help out on this
> project.
> Some things I have potentially relevant knowledge of include:
> 
> c, c++, gccxml, openc++ (tho it's been a little while), pdt, xml,
> mysql/odbc, boost. I'm not very skilled with Perl or Bison/Yacc. My
> main
> linux dev box has been having hardware problems, and also for a few
> other
> reasons, win32 is my main dev platform right now.

ok, then you might want to help with the testing of the debian
packaging of the gui elements for mingw32/cygwin. Mike Garnsey and I
have been working on porting gtk to windows via the deb packaging
system for the gui.

> 
> One thing I noticed is that, for some reason, gcc doesn't keep track
> of
> the column number while it's parsing (well, the tree node doesn't
> keep
> track anyway). I've considered amending this; I don't know if this
> would
> be useful to introspector tho.

you can turn that on in bison

So, I look forward to chatting with you some more
mike



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

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