Re: [ros-dev] Tracking implementation API status

[Magnus Olsen]

Perl is not a standard compiler in windows. 
it req active perl being install and 
around 56MB extra (compress form)
how much it take uncompress I do not known


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Klemens Friedl" <frik85(a)gmail.com>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Tracking implementation API status


>   WineHQ's API-docu-system consists of static pages
> that are generated
>  by using a single perl script. The c2man.pl script uses regex
>  expressions to parse the source code and generate static html files.
>  An introduction and more in-deep information about the Wine API
>  documentation can be found on their website:
>  http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/api-docs
>  
>  In my opinion, we should try to optimize the c2man.pl for our purpose.
>  
>  An alternative would be to update or even rewrite the rgenstat tool.
>  Maybe by using the pcre3 regex library, or by writing a
>  lexer+parser+generator. The lexer and parser code could be generated
>  by using tools like bison, yacc or lemon. The later one even supports
>  EBNF and multi-threading.
>  
>  The benefit of a tool written C or C++ would be that it would be
>  faster and it can be used with RosBE without additional third party
>  packages (like perl).
>  By using regex, especially the pcre3 library which is compatible with
>  perl-regex (the defacto standard) we could refactor the perl-script to
>  C code.
>  
>  On the otherside, for the meantime it sounds more reasonable to go
>  with an slightly optimized wine perl script.
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