From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,60bd6bcf946ebe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:53:45 -0600 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:48:40 -0500 From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada (GNAT) and GNU Scientific Library References: <87odr7zgnn.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1163768283.498569.179310@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1163798903.068167.254550@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1163842895.829193.152890@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1163842895.829193.152890@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7if334-bsm.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-Fl7k/Sm4Y0GCZ68dN23sobuxQ1kALs0bAjPivAOGyyJSxTYaGxTWqYjGHKKm+ISMBXKft9Rp4gC6j4h!+PMF29yLi0LdcJXz+sy1JtGdnS2/3fqjAamSq+JZ0BRCJgrLySO5Ce90B8Wjc6K3y5k10BMmJU7C!uHk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7554 Date: 2006-11-18T08:48:40-05:00 List-Id: george@gentoo.org wrote: > On a related note, I recently "resurrected" the cbind package. It was > one of the packages we had in portage (that's Gentoo) and which I did > not, at the time, update yet. The usual search however did not turn up > any update information. In fact all the references I found were > pointing at the location which now look dead (If anybody can give me > any pointers to anything "official" I'd be gratefull to hear of > course). Fortunately we still had the sources on our mirrors, so I > somewhat cleaned them up and repackaged (I don't remember all the > details right now, minor stuff mostly. Most notably, I converted some > script from csh to bash, in order not to force tcsh dependency just for > one 20-liner. The rest was trivial IIRC (not that even that was hard > :))). If anybody is interested to have it you can get the repackaged > sources here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~george/src/cbind-6.0.tar.bz2 > or on any of our mirrors. Just run make to build, it only needs gcc and > make AFAICT. I intend to keep it for as long as I can "maintain" it. I > briefly tested it on some .c file - incidentally that was my attempt to > test some gsl function :), and it seemed to spit some reasonably > looking code for some gsl header file. Although I did not test this > further at the time. > > There were also announcements of an ongoing effort to produce a SWIG > module, however my understanding is that is not yet finished (and IIRC > it aims at C++ bindings). Meanwhile you can try throwing cbind at the > task - it may help produce some bindings at least for the needed > functions. > Actually, SWIG will bind to more than just C++. It really is a N-way language binding generator. I've not checked the progress recently (the work is being done in the SVN repository of of the GNUAda project on sourceforge)..