Re: [orbitcpp-list] Task list

[Andreas K. <ak...@ix...>]

Hi folks,

Phil dawes wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Here's my take on what needs to be done:
> 
> 1) Get the skeletons working with the string example

i'll be looking into this right now. (we had a probability theory exam
yesterday, and today i'm taking a break from learning) i hope i can
commit as frequently as possible.

> 2) Port the other non-MI tests over from ORBit-C++ and make sure they
> work:
> boolean, consts, corba_unknown, enum, exception, integers, objref,
> struct, typedef, sequence

boolean: should be ok
consts: no support yet
corba_unknown: huh? what should this do?
enum: no support yet
exception: should be ok
integers: should be ok
objref: should be ok
typedef: should be ok
sequence: no support yet

> 3) Put in support for multiple inheritance (with the inline casts and
> downcall functions), and port the 'diamond' test.

perhaps i'll do some preliminary work on this today.

> 5) Fix orbit-idl so that it can take its shared library backends from
> any directory. This will enable the tests to be run without installing
> the compiler first (I really want this, because otherwise I can't use
> 'make distcheck' to catch build/install bugs before I do a release)

uh, let's first produce something worth releasing :)

> Andy, do you think you could cobble together some notes on the compiler
> structure? - just a few lines on things like IDLScope and the supporting
> functions. It took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to remove the
> leading :: from fully qualified CPP names.

i'll see what i can do. though i hate documenting. phil, can you think
of a way to make the thing more self-explanatory? (and thus lessen the
need for docs? ;-)

> A quick tip for anybody wanting to do some compiler hacking - if you run
> ./configure --disable-static (or ./autogen.sh --disable-static) then the
> compiler builds much faster.

bye
andy