"Alexandre" == Alexandre Chartre <Alexandre.Chartre at Sun.COM> writes:
Alexandre> Project Description: Alexandre> The purpose of this project is to interface some scripting Alexandre> languages with MDB so that these languages can be used to Alexandre> develop new MDB commands. Scripting languages will be Alexandre> interfaced with the MDB C API so that MDB commands and Alexandre> functions can be invoked from the scripting language. It Alexandre> will also be interfaced with CTF type information so that Alexandre> data structure can be directly accessed from the scripting Alexandre> language. Alexandre> This project will allow to write new MDB commands using a Alexandre> scripting language instead of having to write and compile a Alexandre> C module. Thus this will greatly reduce the time to write Alexandre> new MDB commands. I like this idea. Question: Are the MDB API and CTF information public? Or are they private to ON? If they're private to ON, would this project work to make them public? Alexandre> This project will initially interface the PERL language with MDB. I'd like to do the same thing with Tcl, and I'm sure there will be fans of Python and other scripting languages that will want to help. This may solve one of the issues I've noticed in the past. It would be nice to save a pipeline of commands as a single command you could use. I've thought of adding a dcmd like "alias" or "proc" or "func" to do this. +1 from me. -- Dave Marquardt Sun Microsystems, Inc. Austin, TX +1 512 401-1077 (SUN internal: x64077)
