Re: thoughts on splitting up NYACC

Sounds good to me.

I hope you will increment the major version number such that it becomes
easier for dependent packages to adapt their build process.

Best regards,
Mikael

Den sön 28 dec. 2025 00:09Matt Wette <[email protected]> skrev:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been working on NYACC for over 10 years now.   I started with a
> parser-generator
> (lalr) and progressed to C parser (parse-c99) and then FFI helper
> (ffi-helper).  Lately I have
> replaced the backend for the ffi-helper with a custom bytevector layer
> (cdata).  I have wondered
> if I should split up this package.   If so, it would likely be into the
> following:
>
> 1) nyacc : the parser generator; no other guile-external dependencies
> 2) guile-cdata: bytevector cover for C data, with arch-info; no other
> guile-external dependencies
> 3) guile-cparser : C parser, dependent on (1) nyacc and arch-info from (2)
> 4) guile-ffi-helper: C code to guile FFI generator
>
> Thoughts?  I'm looking for feedback from those who use any of the above.
>
> FYI, regarding the FFI helper, I have inserted a level of indirection so
> that the FFI helper
> can generate code for not only cdata, but also scheme-bytestructures and
> bstructs, given
> the plugins from github.com/mwette/guile-fhbe (ffi helper back-end).
> I'm hoping I will not
> have to provide support for the alternate backends.
> (See dev-3.02 branch in github.com/mwette/nyacc for work-in-progress.)
>
> Matt
>
>
>