RE: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Strljic, Matthias Milan
: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers Hi All, to answer Niclas' question first ... yes a lot of tools allow writing code in for example Java and have that compiled to c-like programs. I had a look at a lot of these options before starting to work on PLC4X and continued since then.

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Julian Feinauer
Hi, thanks! Of course the Paper will only speak about the project in regular 3rd person view so I see no issue for policy violations. Julian Am 29.04.19, 13:20 schrieb "Justin Mclean" : Hi, > But, I guess we get rid of the discussion if we do the following > - generate a PLC4

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > But, I guess we get rid of the discussion if we do the following > - generate a PLC4X branch where all the development takes place (=> > everything is ASF licensed) > - keep the paper source in the separate repo and, if necessary, reference > code snippets from PLC4X Repo (with clear licen

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Julian Feinauer
Hi Justin, I see your concerns and I agree that I still have to learn some things about the "Apache Way" and this "do it all in the open" philosophy, thus this is a good discussion. But, I guess we get rid of the discussion if we do the following - generate a PLC4X branch where all the developme

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > some clarification... this repo currently hosts two things... some code > snippets (really messy) and the draft version for the paper (like really > really early draft). If any of the code appears in the paper and is not clearly licensed under a compatible license then it’s unlikely PLC4

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Julian Feinauer
Hi Justin, some clarification... this repo currently hosts two things... some code snippets (really messy) and the draft version for the paper (like really really early draft). The paper code is what is (for me) unsure license related but the code will of course go to the PLC4X repo (once it is

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > And for the private Repo... It also felt wrong for me to write this. And > strictly speaking its not a PLC4X Paper but a Paper which "talks about" > PLC4X. The main reason for the private repo are license concerns as the > authors usually have to hand over several rights to the Publisher

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi Julian, I'm totally fine with that ;-) Chris Am 29.04.19, 10:43 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" : Hi Chris, Hi Niclas, @Niclas: Basically Chris answered all those questions as I would. I also looked at Meta Languages like Haxe but there usually where some drawbacks. B

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Julian Feinauer
Hi Chris, Hi Niclas, @Niclas: Basically Chris answered all those questions as I would. I also looked at Meta Languages like Haxe but there usually where some drawbacks. But what we discussed was the idea to generate the DSL or the AST from python code (very limited python code), so that our DSL

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi All, to answer Niclas' question first ... yes a lot of tools allow writing code in for example Java and have that compiled to c-like programs. I had a look at a lot of these options before starting to work on PLC4X and continued since then. I was never quite happy with the results. While th

Re: [generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-29 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Outsider looking in; Many language runtimes allows embedding of other languages' runtimes within. So why not pick a languages that is reasonably easy to integrate into other languages, and then write the drivers in a fully fledged programming language, rather than the DFDL abstraction or creating a

[generation] Another approach to generated drivers

2019-04-28 Thread Julian Feinauer
Hi all, just wanted to sum up some talks and discussions we had off-list about the whole topic of driver generation / providing drivers in other languages. Currently, there are the following two approaches going on: Driver Generation based on DFDL by Chris: Chris already shared his branch and is