Hi folks! I've planned to reimplement MIG or modern syntax in GNU Guile for years. But I'm not sure how many people are interested in this work.
Joshua Branson writes: > Protonmail Me <sjoerd.van.le...@pm.me> writes: > >> Dear Hurd Developers, >> >> I attempted to send below e-mail to the hurd-maintainters, but I found out >> that this e-mail is presented on Savannah, although posted in 2011. I hope >> that I >> am doing this right. >> >> Aside from what I mentioned in the e-mail forwarded, I want to add two other >> bullets: >> >> *) I'd like to upgrade GNU MIG's IDL language to a more modern syntax, and >> enhance MIG with asynchronous handling >> >> *) I totally forgot to mention Emacs LISP and PERL as a possible target >> languages, my bad > > This sounds pretty awesome! I think I read somewhere that GNU MIG has > an unused bit somewhere everytime that it sends messages...You could set > said bit to a 1, to specify that this is a newer version of MIG. I wish > I know where it was that I read that. > >> >> Further I would have a suggestion at changing the name of Mach Interface >> Generator to MIG Interface Generator, the latter would be useful for any GNU >> (free) software in the need of either vertical or horizontal IPC. > > I should also mention that there are some alternatives to MIG: FLICK. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/rpc_stub_generator.html > >> >> Please read on, >> Regards, >> Sjoerd >> >> -------- Doorgestuurd bericht -------- >> >> Onderwerp: GNU MIG >> Datum: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:10:40 +0200 >> Van: Protonmail Me <sjoerd.van.le...@pm.me> >> Antwoord-naar: Protonmail Me <sjoerd.van.le...@pm.me> >> Aan: hurd-maintain...@gnu.org >> >> Dear GNU Hurd maintainers, >> >> I have over 10 years of Geospatial (GIS) system implementations, and >> have found some time recently to actively be able to start producing >> free software. Within this spare time, I'd like to create a GIS >> framework, different from libraries such as GDAL and different from >> applications like QGIS or GRASS, finding them inadequate. Also, having >> experience with a number of proprietary systems, I can safely say that >> utility organisations using them suffer more than gaining something out >> of them. For me, reason enough to embark on this train. >> >> However, having seen what is absent and what is necessary, the first >> thing that came to mind is a decent, reasonably efficient IPC solution. >> REST (which is fast enough for most things) just doesn't work for the >> monstrous data GIS systems produce and consume. Within corporate realms, >> Protobuf is establishing itself slowly, but is not what I am looking >> for. Then I remembered that Mach uses MIG and I remembered that the GNU >> project was still attempting to create a microkernel, and has GNU MIG. >> >> On my own computer, I made a quick test whether GNU MIG could be >> compiled on GNU/Linux, and without to much hassle (linking some >> platform-independent Mach stuff in), it did. However, I notice that I >> can not seem to find any design complete documentation either on >> functional or technical level. The MIG preprocessor (migcom) does >> segfault easily and there are some other twitchy things (such as calling >> mig without any arguments just puts one back in the shell without >> warning or usage line). >> >> I would be happy to embark on a mission to >> >> * Work out how GNU MIG works and write some documentation (if this is >> wanted, I would like to know whether to use GNU Info or RST and whether >> some documentation is available somewhere) >> >> * Make GNU MIG a bit more stable >> >> * Extract platform requirements such that GNU MIG can be used on both >> GNU Hurd and GNU/Linux >> >> * Provide a C++(17?) generator >> >> * Provide other generators (Python, GNU Guile, etc) >> >> Of course, if others are already doing this, I would rather just like to >> join them >> >> Kind Regards, >> Sjoerd van Leent -- GNU Powered it GPL Protected it GOD Blessed it HFG - NalaGinrut Fingerprint F53B 4C56 95B5 E4D5 6093 4324 8469 6772 846A 0058
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