Re: Guile Summer of Code project

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

> Ludovic Court?s:
> > >     Therefore, being able to parse and access C code from Scheme/Guile 
> > >     itself,
> > >     and handling such a code like any other Scheme object would clearly
> > >     benefit the community opening many new possibilities.
> > > 
> > >     For example, creating Guile bindings through a foreign function 
> > >     generator
> > >     using the parser on headers for popular C libraries and applications
> > >     would be plain easy.
> >
> >  Again, I'm not convinced that such a tool would suffice to make FFI
> >  generation "plain easy".
>
> One project who actually makes this conversion "plain easy", is jsext:
>  http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread528081.html
> jsext is a library for javascript which automatically creates wrappers
> on the fly out of c header files. I know it works, because I once got
> a personal demonstration from the author of it. :-) Might be worth looking
> at as well.

I should have provided the main link for the project as well:

  http://www.jsext.net/main.jsx

I think jsext has developed a lot since the posting of the
link I gave. However, the info in the link above demonstrates very well 
the intention of jsext, which seems to be exactly the same as this gnu 
summer of code project proposal. Perhaps, if jsext is written in C
(I'm not sure, maybe it is), its just porting jsext to guile, and thats
it...