[tng-devel] Module interpreter

[Sebastian Wolff <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I want to create a discussion thread for a module "interpreter" (before 
we start the actual implementation). I would like to combine things 
from drivers tngbatch and TNGQT and also restructure the opening of 
modules, etc. If you want to add any ideas, please use the "reply to 
list" button and it will be sorted according to the discussion thread 
on http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/tng-devel/


Goals:
- unify interface between main program and Lua interpreter
- provide a simplier way to open modules
- provide a simple interface to logging AND output mesages (ostream for 
__str__ operators)
- provide trace (output)
- provide quiet trace (trace position without output)
- provide no trace
- provide API for object browser
- Load, Start, Stop, Continue, Reload ??? which one do we need?

Moreover I would like to automate the CMake scripts such that any found 
module will be automatically compiled and added. That means we need 
find a way to automatically add and open SWIG modules in the 
interpreter.

Idea:
- every module gets a directory interpreter - In this directory there 
will be a single C++ file which does all things that are done in the 
driver at the moment (creating the logger object and opening the SWIG 
module). The SWIG opening should be done by making the specific load 
routine known to the interpreter module.
- The interpreter module will contain a factory (Singleton) class which 
collects all load methods and calls them on startup.

Regards
SW