Gregory M. Turner wrote:
Hmm, that pure parser business... is that for reentrancy? Or is that a side-effect of some larger "pureness"?
If they aren't portably generated, just do it ahead of time -- betcha AJ will have no problem checking in some pre-generated stuff so long as the sources to regenerate them are available to those who have the right tools.
The pureness is about reentrancy, though it maybe necessary so that two parsers don't have conflicting global variable names. I also thought about pre-generated parser code... that's probably a good idea if Alexandre agrees.
- make the database read/write - not immediately important, but
necessary later
does MSI do that? I thought that was done by some funky tool... or does it use msi.dll to do the work?
There's some tools you can download from MSDN, however MSI.DLL does all the work of reading and writing the database.
I don't have lots of time to work on this at the moment, so if somebody wants to have a go, I'm happy to help them out.
well considering I'm the only recipient of this, would I be the "somebody" you have in mind? ;) (just kidding of course ... as for me, my plate is pretty full right now, but I will of course take a look at it when I get the chance and see if there's anything I can do to help. Since I need to brush up on my parsing skills if I ever want to help Ove with widl, maybe I can find something to do in that arena.)
It's probably better that somebody who's looking for stuff to do does it, seeing you've got other stuff to do. I might do some work on it periodically, but it seems like it might be a fun project for somebody to take up.
Mike