Re: Re: software design clarification

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

thanks for your continuous encouragement to look into Elsa. I'll have
a close look into it again, as well as the links you paste related to
mozilla development.

> So I bring this up because even if Elsa is missing things right now, I
> think it's safe to say that they will or could be fixed soon-ish, and
> there's a lot of opportunity here to combine efforts and get mutual
> benefit -- esp. since both projects seem to be manpower limited and
> having trouble reaching a self-sustainable development process.

That's definitely true.

> (How hard is adding accurate source tracking, even if you start from
> nothing?  All you have to do is stick coordinates in your tokens, then
> just write the code to copy them out again into all your AST nodes?
> Maybe a little boring, but...)

:-)

>> Right. Well, it was essentially people like Mark who suggested to work
>> on GCC, to provide additional hooks to bind it to Synopsis, not necessarily
>> to rewrite the Synopsis bits as part of GCC. (I guess there may even be some
>> commercial interests into adding introspection capabilities to GCC...)
> 
> That's getting into a bunch of really complex internal GCC politics
> though, isn't it?  Dunno if you really want to go there... I mean, if

Apparently at least some of the issues are resolved now.

> there are commercial interests that make it happen independently,
> cool, you can sponge off their work, but getting in there oneself
> seems like a risky sort of thing to put on the critical path.
> 
> (Actually, speaking of commercial interests again, I am pretty sure
> Mozilla is hiring, perhaps they would like to pay someone on this list
> to make appropriate improvements to Elsa :-).  ...For that matter,
> I wonder if Mark has thought of offering Mozilla a contract to help
> with their crazy schemes...)

Now that sounds like an idea ! (Let me Cc:...)

> Meddlingly yours,

Much appreciated. :-)

Regards,
		Stefan

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