On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Florian Goujeon <florian.goujeon@42ndart.org> wrote:
Hi,
I've written a C++ syntax analysis library using Boost.Spirit. (This 'library' is actually a subset of the Scalpel library. I talked about it in the Boost mailing list here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/208217 ) For the sake of brevity, let's call it Salsa (for Stand-ALone Syntax Analysis).
[snip] I've been looking for a lightweight and portable solution for automatic registering of things with a reflection library I'm working on (http://bit.ly/bn7iYM). I've already looked at tools like gcc, clang, doxygen + xslt, etc. but most of them have too many dependencies or are too heavyweight and clumsy for this task. I've had time only to briefly 'scroll through' the docs for Scalpel but it seems like the thing I've been looking for and I'm planning to explore the possibility to use it. But since the registering concerns mostly things like class declarations, which *usually* don't need preprocessing, the Salsa library might be even better.
I'd like to know: is there a reasonable chance that such a library will be accepted into Boost?
In my opinion it would be a great addition to Boost and useful in many other situations besides the one that I mentioned above. BR Matus