[C++-sig] gccxml

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2008/12/2 Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>

> 2008/12/2 Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > 2008/12/2 Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> 2008/12/2 Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>:
> >> > 2008/12/2 Alan Baljeu <alanbaljeu at yahoo.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> I would make a contribution to some projects.  GCC-XML is not one of
> >> >> them,
> >> >> seeing how it's not even worth my effort to try to install and
> >> >> configure
> >> >> this stuff.  If I were involved with these packages, I would make it
> >> >> easy
> >> >> for others to get involved.  As it isn't easy I'm going to look
> >> >> elsewhere.
> >> >
> >> > Unfortunately you will soon find out there is no real alternative to
> >> > GCC-XML
> >> > if you have to do serious parsing of C++ headers.  The time invested
> in
> >> > getting GCC-XML to work for you will pay off in the end in case your
> >> > project
> >> > has multi-year scope and large API set to wrap.
> >>
> >> Switch to a debian based system:
> >>
> >>  $ sudo apt-get install gccxml
> >>
> >> Approx ~1min of time invested (+ time to write this email).
> >
> > Sure, but how current is this debian gccxml?  Is it a CVS snapshot, or
> the
> > years old official release that does not work well with pygccxml?
> >
>
> From:
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gccxml
>
> ...
> Package: gccxml (0.9.0+cvs20080525-1)
> ...
>
> I do not know if you call that /recent/ or not...


Goodie!  That should work with pygccxml 0.9.5, in theory.  And to my
surprise Ubuntu 8.04 now has that same snapshot as well.

Kids these days have it too easy... :P

Unfortunately Debian/Ubuntu have no pygccxml package, what a shame! :-(

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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