Hey Arpit, thanks for your answer. As if you should proceed using both the tools: if you think it's worth it, go for it. But be careful about the timeframe of the program. You might don't want to spend a significant portion of the already limited coding time into doing the parsing twice. Here I have to admit that I ignore how much effort would it represent to support the two libraries from the beginning.
If you choose to support both, I'd suggest a small change in the proposed timeline: choose one, stick to it and use it to generate both the AST and then the YAML files for GRC, integrate it into gr_modtool, and after it all is stable, extend the parsing options to take the other parser library, which would be nice to have. I mention this because I'd rather the focus of the project to be concentrated in the block header tool than in providing two wrappers for a parsing library that fulfill effectively the same purpose. However, this is (as of now) only a suggestion. I'm open to hearing arguments otherwise. Cheers, -Nico On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:07 AM Arpit Gupta <guptarpit1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy Holi everyone (holi is an Indian festival of colors) > > Thank you Nicolas for your valuable response > > I understood all your points and will surely make changes in the proposal. > > The tools here I referred are both pygccxml and libclang. > > There is trade off for both the tools:- > > 1). Pygccxml takes up a quite a bit of computation time while libclang is > better in this case. > > 2). Pygccxml is quite mature and also has a proper documentation which > gives it advantage over libclang. > > 3). Pygccxml generates a nice AST which is really understandable and easy > to work with while this is not the case in libclang. > > 4). Still libclang is really popular C++ parsing tool and is under > continuous development which gives us an excellent opportunity to explore > it. > > So, I think it’s worth it to use both of them to parse header files. > > I definitely know that the most important part of the project is about > extracting most of the information from the header files, but I thought > that the ultimate goal is to create YAML files for the GRC. I will > definitely make these changes and I’m really sorry for the confusion > created due to this in the proposal. > > So, Should I proceed using both the tools? > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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