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reply "Matthew" <admin stlsoft.dot.dot.dot.dot.org> writes:
Since I'm about to be freed from my unwilling thrall for The Man, and am
champing at the bit to get back to all my usual activities, I thought it
might be useful to solicit opinion from all you good folks so I can hit
the amateur road running, as it were.

So, if anyone's got any ideas / requests for any of the above 6 (C++
and/or D) libraries, please feel free to post them up, or email them to
me. The early bird catches the worm, so to speak.

FYI, things I'm already planning include:
    - ACESTL - subproject of STLSoft that STL-ifies the Adaptive
Communications Environment. There're quite a few components in the (not
yet released) first version, as a result of my work back in the real
world, of late.
    - STLSoft - erm, well, erm ... ok, Documentation!! (Grrr)
    - DTL - I realise that the reason STLSoft advances with such seeming
speed is that I actually _use_ it all the time, and whenever there's a
component, or even a sub-project, that's missing, I just cook it up. So,
I think for DTL to advance, I need to actually use it. So, I plan to
start writing some real tools / apps in D, which will hopefully exercise
the use cases, and flesh out the libs. Of course, the first step for me
_and_ for others, will be a release of DTL 0.3 / 0.4 to provide clean
building, rationale, documentation, cross-platform test samples, etc.
But once that's done, I think the _using it_ approach will work best,
and that's what I'll be doing. Since big-W and I will be doing our book
in earnest very shortly, and since we've already agreed that we can't
agree on a document format, it may be that the best idea would be to
write a text<=>.DOC<=>html tool, in D of course. That'll probably
provide impetous for both DTL and also for the COM stuff, which I've
been itching to have a go at for several years. Maybe we can do this on
DSource??
    - Rangelib - loads has happened in Rangelib, but I've not had the
chance to release any of it, so expect more on this (including more than
the lonely two posts on that ng so far).
    - recls - I'm planning more mappings - Python, Ch - and also adding
new functionality, such as the ability to recursively-search based on
file attributes, to use reg-ex in the pattern matching, and to search
VSS and/or CVS, and the Windows registry. (Also, for the D folks, I have
ideas for _dramatically_ cutting down the source _and_ code size of the
library, which Walter's been rightly bugging me about for some time.)
    - Open-RJ. Walter scored a major coup for D (on me, anyway) in
showing just how incredibly succinct the Record JAR / Open-RJ format
could be coded up in D. Although not a perfect / complete
implementation, the fact that it was only one page (!) gave me pause. So
I'll be giving in on this one, and writing it in 100% pure D pretty
soon. If anyone wants to use the format right now, you can get the D
mapping and the C-lib from http://openrj.org/
    - http://shellext.com - I'm planning to get a couple of new shell
extensions done before the end of the year, but am always open to any
new ideas.

Ok, that still leaves a universe of possibilities out there, so please
feel free to send in your requests. I plan to spend the next few months
working on libraries, articles and books, and not seeing the inside of
another office until the Autumn if I can help it!

btw, all the best to you, whatever your creed/denomination, at this time
of year. For those who do celebrate the overeating, the portly bearded
man with the red hat, and the obligatory giving of unwanted gifts, I
know of a rather amusing little read that's recently been published
that'd make an excellent gift, if you're short on ideas ...

Cheers

Matthew

P.S. For anyone who may be interested, there're lots of half completed
column ideas that'll be written up in the next few weeks, so expect a
burst from myself and Bjorn Karlsson (my partner in crime on The C++
Source; http://www.artima.com/cppsource) in the new year, either in The
C++ Source, or on www.cuj.com.
Dec 02 2004
parent reply Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.thisisspam.cn> writes:
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Matthew schrieb am Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:44:45 +1100:

 Since I'm about to be freed from my unwilling thrall for The Man, and am
 champing at the bit to get back to all my usual activities, I thought it
 might be useful to solicit opinion from all you good folks so I can hit
 the amateur road running, as it were.


Great!


 So, if anyone's got any ideas / requests for any of the above 6 (C++
 and/or D) libraries, please feel free to post them up, or email them to
 me. The early bird catches the worm, so to speak.


<snip>


     - recls - I'm planning more mappings - Python, Ch - and also adding
 new functionality, such as the ability to recursively-search based on
 file attributes, to use reg-ex in the pattern matching, and to search
 VSS and/or CVS, and the Windows registry. (Also, for the D folks, I have
 ideas for _dramatically_ cutting down the source _and_ code size of the
 library, which Walter's been rightly bugging me about for some time.)


Please test your D code on a Linux box.

Neither the version included in dmd-0.108
	- lot's of undefined symbols
nor your version 1.5.2
	- version(Linux) instead of version(linux)
	- missing import for std.c.time
	- links only with g++ and not gcc(dmd's standard linker)
	- a bunch of undefined symbols 
succeed to link simple programs like:
http://svn.kuehne.cn/dstress/beta/dstresstest.d

Yes, I'm aware of the various differences like Entry.DirectoryPath()
versus Entry.directoryPath().

Thomas


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Dec 03 2004
parent "Matthew" <admin stlsoft.dot.dot.dot.dot.org> writes:
"Thomas Kuehne" <thomas-dloop kuehne.thisisspam.cn> wrote in message
news:v33682-mt4.ln1 kuehne.cn...

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 Matthew schrieb am Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:44:45 +1100:

 Since I'm about to be freed from my unwilling thrall for The Man,




and am

 champing at the bit to get back to all my usual activities, I




thought it

 might be useful to solicit opinion from all you good folks so I can




hit

 the amateur road running, as it were.


 Great!


 So, if anyone's got any ideas / requests for any of the above 6 (C++
 and/or D) libraries, please feel free to post them up, or email them




to

 me. The early bird catches the worm, so to speak.


 <snip>


     - recls - I'm planning more mappings - Python, Ch - and also




adding

 new functionality, such as the ability to recursively-search based




on

 file attributes, to use reg-ex in the pattern matching, and to




search

 VSS and/or CVS, and the Windows registry. (Also, for the D folks, I




have

 ideas for _dramatically_ cutting down the source _and_ code size of




the

 library, which Walter's been rightly bugging me about for some




time.)

 Please test your D code on a Linux box.

 Neither the version included in dmd-0.108
 - lot's of undefined symbols
 nor your version 1.5.2
 - version(Linux) instead of version(linux)
 - missing import for std.c.time
 - links only with g++ and not gcc(dmd's standard linker)
 - a bunch of undefined symbols
 succeed to link simple programs like:
 http://svn.kuehne.cn/dstress/beta/dstresstest.d

 Yes, I'm aware of the various differences like Entry.DirectoryPath()
 versus Entry.directoryPath().

 Thomas


Yes, that one's on the list. :-)

Keep 'em coming.
Dec 03 2004