Re: [pure-lang-users] Pure 0.6 round out

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> With a few libraries like GSL, ODBC, a GUI kit, and some kind of mechanism to move my 
> programs to the office computers, I'll have a nice tool for most if not all of my tasks.

Well, with the base package nearly-feature complete now (vector/matrix 
and multithreading support is still on my TODO list), maybe we can start 
collecting a wishlist of essential library interfaces to turn Pure into 
a practical programming tool. Maybe we even find some brave souls who 
are willing to work on some of these. ;-)

Here's what I can think of from the top of my head:

- GSL
- ODBC and SQLite3
- XML/XSLT (wrapper for the Gnome libxml2/libxslt libraries)
- Qt4

So that lines up with Eddie's needs pretty well. :) ODBC, XML/XSLT and 
Qt3 are available for Q, so it shouldn't be a big deal to port these. 
(Well, Qt4 might still be quite some work, but there's a half-finished 
Qt4 module for Q lying around on my harddrive. I'd be willing to start 
working on that one when the matrix/vector support and the Pd module I 
need for my computer music courses are finished.)

Probably we also need to add some stuff to the system interface 
(low-level I/O, sockets, etc.), but that can be ported from Q's clib 
module as needed.

Do we need an Apache module? There's a Q Apache module which shouldn't 
be that hard to port to Pure, but it never offered much more than cgi 
functionality anyway, and I'm not sure whether anybody really used it.

Albert

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