[Info-vax] BridgeWorks -> TIG

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/1/2024 8:20 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> I could not get BridgeWorks to work. And the VMS side was
> VMS Alpha only. And the non-Java option for client side
> was COM.
> 
> But I do like the concept. So I tried creating something
> similar that works with newer stuff. TIG (Transparent
> Interface Generation).

> Question is whether it is worth continuing working on.
> 
> Lots of outstanding work:
> * comment code
> * document wire protocol
> * add support for more data types including VAX float
> * add support for arrays outside of structs
> * add Python client generation
> * add C++ client generation
> * add C server generation (there is not really any reason for
>    server to be in Java except that it is easier to write a
>    multi-threaded server in Java than in C)
> 
> Thoughts?

Not much feedback, but I did some of the outstanding tasks and
packed it up.

Start here:

https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/opensource/vms/doc/tig/doc/

Download links:

https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/opensource/vms/vmstig-bin-v0_1.zip
https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/opensource/vms/vmstig-client-v0_1.zip
https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/opensource/vms/vmstig-src-v0_1.zip

Arne