On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:57 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > About prefixing symbols: is there an automatic way to do this or is > it a question of editing all source files (tedious and prone to > error)? And how does it related to using namespaces?
>From the original post: "LibGAP does the prefixing with a script using the python ply module to identify the globals." - William > > John > > On 23 September 2012 14:48, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: >> I am really excited about this. My vote would be a big +1. >> >> I guess that, at least for a (long) while, both gap interfaces will >> coexist, since lot of code deppends on the old pexpect one. But the >> speed difference is so big that i think it would be worth the effort >> of porting old code to the new interface. >> >> On 23 sep, 15:40, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> LibGAP (the C library interface to GAP) is finally usable and ready to be >>> released into the wild! We will ship it as a separate spkg since >>> * Upstream doesn't build a shared library >>> * The build system is replaced by standard autotools >>> * To avoid symbol collisions every gap function and global variable is >>> renamed with a libGAP_ prefix >>> * We add hooks to input/output, error handling, and the GAP memory >>> manager. >>> >>> Actually, prefixing the symbols in a library might be a good idea in other >>> libraries that were not originally written with sharing in mind. If two >>> functions have the same name in two shared libraries, then (at least on >>> Linux) the first one wins which is almost certainly not what the second >>> library wants. LibGAP does the prefixing with a script using the python ply >>> module to identify the globals. >>> >>> Per the usual rules, new spkgs need a vote so now is your chance to be >>> heard ;-) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
