updates

hi there,

after some months of intensive work on the C++ parser,
some major refactoring, heavy debugging and testing,
the new work starts to bear fruits.

Today I checked in some new python APIs that expose
the C/C++ parser, i.e. parse tree, symbol table, etc.
to python. This is still alpha level software, but
it looks very promising. I use boost.python for the
mapping, and the code is available as part of the
'sandbox', i.e. in 'contrib/bpl'.

I took the occasion to enhance the Buffer class to
(re-)enable in-place code manipulation. As a
proof-of-concept there is a python script that
reads in a source file, annotates all functions it
finds, and writes out the modified code into a new
file.

While such functionality is very useful in its own
right, I believe that this low-level python API
will help prototyping, testing, and debugging of
all the new work that is still going into the
C++ parser, such as symbol lookup and type analysis.

I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions concerning
these APIs.


On a different note: we have switched the server
hosting the mailing lists. Doing the move the passwords
had to be reset. New password reminders will be sent
out by the end of this month.

Thanks,
		Stefan