Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-04 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/04/2017 02:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We release a brief Vision document summarizing the main goals we plan to pursue in the coming six months. This half we are focusing on three things: safety, lifetime management, and static introspection. https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H1

Re: cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

2015-09-21 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
> I read your reasons why you're not using DStep. But I still think it's a > shame that you chose to create a new tool instead of contributing to DStep. > > That's the unfortunate issue with the D community. Everyone is creating > their on projects instead of working together. That's why the

Re: cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

2015-09-21 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/21/2015 12:01 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 09:45:01 UTC, ZombineDev wrote: >> I guess that the only thing that doesn't map directly to D is &&. The >> others look on the D side like this: >> C++ -> D >> T* -> T* >> T& -> ref T >> const T*

Re: cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

2015-09-21 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
How come it crashes a lot ? > Glancing quickly at the source, it looks like it is using clang as a > source of C++ truth. It's crashing a lot because I make some incorrect assumptions about what's in the AST and not everything is handled. Getting templates right is hard, and cpp_binder doesn't

Re: cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

2015-09-21 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/21/2015 05:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2015-09-21 06:22, Paul O'Neil wrote: > >> I've written more about cpp_binder and my experiences at >> http://www.todayman.net/cpp_binder-pre-announcement-and-status.html. > > About the plugin architecture. I tried modifying DMD to run DStep to

cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

2015-09-20 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
As the title says, cpp_binder is a tool that generates C++ bindings. It reads C++ headers and produces a D file filled with "extern(C++)" declarations. It can translate a bunch of cool, small examples, but is not close to being ready for prime-time. It crashes a lot, especially in the STL;

Re: "Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

2015-09-09 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/08/2015 02:43 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: > I have just completed submitting the book at IngramSpark as well. This > will give the book a chance to appear on book shelves, which I find > important because I think seeing and touching a book has an effect on > anybody visiting a book shop. > >

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-18 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
This is fantastic! Congratulations! -- Paul O'Neil Github / IRC: todayman

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/24/2015 01:07 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. This release comes with many improvements. The GC is a lot faster for most use-cases, we have improved C++ interoperability and fixed plenty of bugs. See the changelog for more details.

Re: DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

2015-02-02 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 02/02/2015 04:21 AM, Chris wrote: On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 19:40:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-31 19:38, Chris wrote: At version 0.0.1? :) At version 0.1.0: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Still loads of time to change the name. If you

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2015-01-27 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/27/2015 09:52 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 12/11/2014 3:16 AM, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 07:40:14 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 12/11/14, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

2015-01-13 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/13/2015 05:22 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:07:02 -0500 Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: This looks great! Does this mean anything with respect to getting better demangling in GDB? it seems

Re: Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

2015-01-13 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
This looks great! Does this mean anything with respect to getting better demangling in GDB? -- Paul O'Neil Github / IRC: todayman

Re: CUDA bindings

2014-10-18 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/18/2014 05:49 AM, ponce wrote: I think we need some place (could be just a NG thread?) to express users needs for library/bindings. Else we don't really know what is missing. A wiki page might be better, so that it can be modified in place and always be up to date with requests and

Re: [OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

2014-10-05 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/01/2014 04:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 10/01/2014 01:38 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: One nice thing about Ubuntu is that they even give you access to future kernel versions through what they call HWE. In short, I can run a 14.04 LTS kernel on a 12.04 server,