[cfe-dev] Potential Summer of Code Project: Ruby bindings for libclang

[Gregory Szorc]

I'd really like to see a libclang API to perform codegen. It's been
discussed on this list before. I think we reached a tentative agreement
on what the API would look like. It likely does not resemble the 2+ year
old WIP at [1] :)

[1] https://github.com/indygreg/clang/compare/master...libclang_compiler


On 2/25/2014 7:51 AM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> I appreciate your interest, but I think that a Ruby bindings project
> will realistically be less likely to gather enough interest compared to
> other project ideas.
> 
> You mentioned "I'd like to work on expanding the libclang API in
> general", if you were to expand this in a project proposal it could be
> more promising.
> 
> On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com
> <mailto:modocache at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My name is Brian Gesiak. I'm a research student at the University of
>> Tokyo, and I'm very excited for Google Summer of Code this year (see
>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 for
>> details)! I'd like to propose a potential project and see if anyone on
>> this list has any feedback.
>>
>> I'd like to work on libclang bindings. I think the bindings are a
>> common starting point for developers who wish to get started with
>> Clang. I'm hoping that improving them could have a big impact.
>>
>> Specifically, I'd like to work on the following three milestones:
>>
>> 1. Ruby bindings for libclang, added to the Clang repository and
>> packaged a RubyGem
>> 2. Refactoring the Python bindings; removing FIXMEs, breaking
>> cindex.py into multiple files for easier reading
>> 3. Improving documentation on libclang; adding READMEs to the Python
>> and Ruby bindings, as well as sample applications
>>
>> If I can achieve the above three milestones with some time to spare,
>> I'd like to work on expanding the libclang API in general.
>>
>> Before becoming a research student, I used to work as an iOS
>> developer. In recent years many in the Objective-C community have used
>> Ruby to make development tools. I'm hoping that adding Ruby bindings
>> and improving documentation for libclang will have a large impact on
>> the community.
>>
>> However, I'm not sure how big of a priority libclang is for this
>> project. It's not mentioned on the list of open projects (see
>> http://clang.llvm.org/OpenProjects.html), so please let me know if I'm
>> barking up the wrong tree. LLVM is my top choice as a mentoring
>> organization for Google Summer of Code this year, so if libclang isn't
>> a viable project I'll try to propose something else.
>>
>> Thanks for your time! Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> - Brian Gesiak
>>
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