[Swig-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Divye K. <div...@gm...>]

Hello,
   I just saw Mr Fulton's posting on the GSoC page and I had a look at
the ideas page. I am interested in pursuing idea number 2: the one on
parsing source code documentation comments. I've also had a look at
some of the documentation and it seems that documentation from the
interface file is already being extracted (according to the
introduction section) and that documentation from the actual header
files needs to be extracted, parsed and set into a format suitable for
providing output in the preferred format of the target language. Am I
right?

   Also, the documentation is silent about supporting SWIG on
WinXP/Vista (Win9x and ME support is indicated in the Introduction
section of the docs). I would assume that it works out of the box on
Windows XP and Vista but I just wanted to confirm.

   As I have never used SWIG before, I have no idea of the complexity
of the task and the amount of work to be done. I would be grateful if
some of the more experienced developers could shed some light on this
point. I'm sorry if I'm repeating a question asked previously.

Yours sincerely,
Divye Kapoor

PS:
   Just for the record, I'm a second year student of the Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee pursuing my Integrated Dual Degree
(Bachelors and Masters) program in Computer Science. I have a strong
background in C++ and the STL and I am a user of some of the Boost
libraries like Lambda (for some functional programming) and Spirit (an
inline EBNF parser-generator).

PPS:
   Sorry if this is off-topic, but I really liked the quality of the
documentation. :-)


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