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Current Development Goals
GNU/Linux Port
The main goal in current development is to update the source code to support the GNU/Linux platform.
An associated goal is to keep the code in a functional state on the current Win32 platform.
The progress of porting is described below.
Definition of Unit Tests
Another immediate goal is to develop unit tests for the scripting API.
These tests will help to maintain the stability and functionality of the program as the code is
modified. The progress of unit test creation is described below.
Request for Developers
A working version of the code is available via anonymous pserver in CVS.
To checkout the code, once you have CVS installed, you can do the following:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@rbuilder.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/rbuilder co bas
At the present time there are only a small number of developers working on the project.
Developers who are interested in contributing to the project are encouraged to post to the
Open Discussion forum or to send email to
willkn@users.sourceforge.net.
For additional information on using CVS, refer to the excellent SourceForge documentation pages:
GNU/Linux Porting
The program currently consists of 16 low-level libraries, 3 application-specific library modules
and 2 application modules.
The table below lists all the libraries and application modules in increasing order of dependency.
Completion dates are added as each module is ported to GNU/Linux.
Table of program modules and completion dates
Once an initial working version in GNU/Linux has been done, the next step will be to improve the
build process to a more general Unix version using the GNU Autotools.
Rbq-Lua API Unit Test Definition
There are currently 182 functions, defined in C and C++, that provide an
interface to the Lua script interpreter that is embedded in the program. These functions are the foundation
used to build the Lua libraries that implement higher-level functionality.
A unit test is a script written in Lua that calls the
function and checks the result. A number of different cases are tested. One case is a function call
with well-formed parameters. Additional cases include function calls with invalid parameters.
Rbq-Lua unit tests will be located in the funcs subdir of the
bas/app/rbq/tst/rbqlua
directory in the CVS source tree. The
first unit test
has been created and can be viewed as an example. Creating and running RbqLua unit tests does not require
installation of the VisualC++ 6.0 software.
The table below lists all of the interface functions, in alphabetical order. Completion dates
are added as unit tests are defined for each function.
Table of rbq-lua API functions and unit test completion dates
A related goal is to generate priority ratings of the functions, based upon frequency of usage in the
lua library code, to better define the order in which unit tests should be created.
Developer Logs
To document and communicate the work on the project, logfiles created by individual developers
are posted to the project web page to describe details of work done.
A humongous 4-year developer log created by the original developer,
William Knight, is also available. This is a log of work done on the project prior to the time that it was
moved to SourceForge.
All work on the project after April 26, 2004 is described in the logfiles below.
Contributors
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