[Baypiggies] C++ parsing in Python for testing backward compatibility

[William Deegan]

Dennis,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Dennis O'Brien <DOBrien at leapfrog.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope this is on-topic.
>
> I have a project (C++ code) that will soon be complete, or at least,
> 1.0.  Other developers will be using this API and library while
> development on 1.1, etc., continues.  All future releases of this
> library need to be backward compatible with games built against 1.0 of
> the API.
>
> Our team has a wide range of C++ expertise, and we've already discovered
> some subtle ways to break backward compatiliby in C++.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution using Python to test backward
> compatibility of C++ classes in header files?


Not necessarily a python solution, but..
Can you use cppunit to craft the suite of tests?
Also I think boost has a c++ parser, and there's a python layer for boost.
(Though I'm not sure it hooks into the boost c++ parser).

-Bill

>
>
> The closest thing I've found for parsing C++ code in Python is GCC-XML.
> http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html
>
> It looks like a good start for building a compatibility tester, but
> before I go down this road, I thought it would be wise to ask people
> wiser than myself.
>
> Ultimately I'd like to integrate this with Buildbot so that every commit
> is tested for compatibility with the 1.0 API.
>
> thanks,
> Dennis
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