Re: [boost] Scalpel: a Spirit&Wave-powered C++ source code analysis library

Subject: Re: [boost] Scalpel: a Spirit&Wave-powered C++ source code analysis library
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-07 17:41:21

On 9/7/2010 10:14 AM, Doug Gregor wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Brian Wood<woodbrian77_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> Doug Gregor:
>>> I want to see great, new ideas in C++ parsing and development tools,
>>> but I strongly feel that those ideas could be far better disseminated
>>> through extending/adapting/changing existing the large-scale,
>>> industry-backed projects (GCC or Clang/LLVM) than by bringing up a
>>> third large-scale competitor.
>>
>> Years ago I looked at GCC and considered using it as
>> a basis for what I'm working on, but after spending a
>> few months working with the code, concluded it wouldn't
>> make a good basis for my project.  Perhaps you are being
>> generous about it here, but I can't recommend anyone join
>> that project.  I certainly hope Clang is superior to GCC in
>> many ways.
>
> I don't know what issues you ran into with GCC, but Boosters should be
> far more at home with Clang: it's a set of reusable, modern C++
> libraries that aim to make it easy to build development tools for
> C/C++/Objective-C, under a BSD-like (Boost-compatible) license. For
> more information, I suggest visiting
>
>    http://clang.llvm.org/
>
> or asking on the Clang mailing list.

Any chance of putting the CLang mailing lists on GMane ?