Nicodemus <nicodemus@[...].br>  writes:

>  Roman Sulzhyk wrote:
> 
> >Talking about todo lists, another useful thing would be to be able to
> >add a command line option to take XML file already pre-generated -
> >that'll simplify pyste script development some, because with G++ 3.x
> >series it takes considerable amounts of time to generate XML from C++
> >and hence making iterative changes is complex.
> >  
> 
>  That is a good idea. But passing individual filenames in the command
>  line does not seem pratical, because you have to specify a xml file
>  *per header file* that will be parsed. Perhaps a flag like "--xml-dir"
>  where you indicate where the xml files will be? That way, before Pyste
>  calls gccxml in the file "test.h", it checks if "test.xml" is present
>  in the xml-dir, and use that if present, or parses it otherwise. What
>  do you think?

What about reading the XML and producing a pickled representation,
then re-reading from the XML whenever it's outdated?  Then we could
easily integrate it with a build system.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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