Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Hold up there, bud. :) If you start coding anything in C++, I would very
much like to be a part of it. If you want, you can even forward me
patches and I'll add them into the ALFS repository, at least until such
time as Thomas sees fit to give you access.
I had already been thinking of trying to convert the C code I already
have into C++ because of its ease of manipulating strings. Can we do
that or would it be advisable to start from scratch? In any case, as I
hope is obvious from my work so far, I'm deeply interested in alfs and
I'd very much like to be a part of any coding done.
Are you willing to work with me on this?
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JH
Yes, time factor allowing. I would not like to move your attention from what you are doing right now though, for it would be extremely counter - productive. For
a series of reasons I think that C++ is the right way to go (C tends to be an extremely "write - only" language), especially if you want a clean start (it is a
*new* alfs after all, getting everything out of the book without human interaction). There is a series of design issues here, and most of all a fair amount of
_mandatory_ patience to put all of this together public preview - wise, avoiding premature constructive criticism. The final goal is to have the end product
fully self hosted. But the first thing to do is to think exactly what we need (imho): a small functional core for parsing the book, like your parser.c attempt,
like my bash based work so far. I would like to experiment with the "parsing" methods that could be applied to the book(s), since this is the main issue, not
just use a ready - made parser for this (various reasons for this last one to be a no - go). If possible, some live discussion about this would be appreciated.
My own view of the alfs project is not that of a "tool", but rather a of a "building framework", where every "package" is considered an "object" of its own right...
Thanks again,
George Makrydakis
(gmak)
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