Pygccxml

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1. Improve error message when no castxml or gccxml is found.

2. Fix compilation of tests with c++11.

3. Fix patching of enums in default arguments for C++03.

4. Version numbers are still tagged with the v prefix (1.7.4 was correctly tagged),
as this is recommended by GitHub. The version number in the __init__.py and
setup.py files are without v prefix, because this is what pip requires.

Thanks to the following people for their contribution to this release:
Ashish Sadanandan

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1. CV-qualified arrays were not being handled correctly by type traits
manipulations functions. For instance, 'int const[N]' would not be
detected as 'const'. Similar problems existed for volatile qualified
arrays too. See 35 for more details. A newer version of CastXML is
recommended (xml output version >= 1.138)

2. Close subprocess stdout stream once value has been read.
Fixes some warnings under python3.

3. Since this release, pyggcxml's version numbers do not contain the ``v``
prefix anymore. This was breaking distribution on PyPI (pypi.python.org).

4. The documentation is now at http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io/

Thanks to the following people for their contribution to this release:
Ashish Sadanandan

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1. Addition of an is_union() method in the type_traits module.

2. type_traits.smart_pointer_traits will now classify std::shared_ptr as a
smart pointer (only boost::shared_ptr was recognized before)

3. Fix a regression in undname_creator_t.format_argtypes

4. C++xx flags are now correctly passed to CastXML. Allowed flags are:
"-std=c++98", "-std=c++03", "-std=c++11", "-std=c++14", "-std=c++1z"
Thanks to Mark Moll for the fix.

5. Add better support for "typedef (class|struct) {} foo;" syntax when using
CastXML. GCCXML did not recognize the typedef. Fetching these
declarations can now be done with: .typedef("foo") or .class_("foo").

6. Add support for the future llvm 3.9. As in release v1.7.1, new structs and
typedefs are now exposed by llvm, which broke pyplusplus.
In this case these are __NSConstantString_tag and __NSConstantString.
The two declarations are now hidden from the declarations tree, but can still
be generated by using the config.flags = ["f1"] option.

7. Multiple fixes to adapt default arguments in functions for py++. Using the
latest version of CastXML is recommended. This makes sure default arguments
for function parameters are correctly defined, so that py++ can process them.

8. Fix for exception when using castxml + gcc5 + std=c++11 and maps.

9. Removed unittest2 dependency for testing with python 2.6

10. Testing: test with std::tr1 unordered containers for gcc >= 4.4.7 and castxml

11. Cosmetic fix for generator name printed to stdout when launching unit tests

12. Fix simple typo in example.py comment

Thanks to the following people for their contribution to this release:
Mark Moll, Ashish Sadanandan, Mark Oates

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1. Fix exception in is_copy_constructor when the constructor's argument was
a typedef. is_copy_constructor will now return False instead of failing.
See issue 27.

2. Fix bug with utils.xml_generator being unset when reading cached file.
This could for example happen when reading a cached file from a second
python interpreter (e.g. in a subprocess or by calling pygccxml
multiple times from a script). See issue 27.

3. SafeConfigParser is throwing a deprecation warning in python 3.2 and newer.
Use ConfigParser instead. Thanks to Mark Moll for the patch.

4. Add support for cflags property in config files.
Thanks to Mark Moll for the patch.

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1. Remove the __va_list_tag declaration from the tree when parsing with CastXML

The __va_list_tag declarations are internal declarations, which are often
not needed. They are for example polluting the declarations tree when running
pyplusplus.

This is optional but on by default. To still load the __va_list_tag declarations
in the tree, a config flag can be set like this: ``config.flags = ["f1"]``,
or by passing the ``flags=["f1"]`` argument the config setup.

2. Some code cleanup

3. Build new package for pypi. The ``1.7.0`` upload has gone wrong ...

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1. Added support for CastXML (https://github.com/CastXML/CastXML)

GCCXML is deprecated and does no more work with modern compilers.
CastXML should be used instead.

``pygccxml 1.7.0`` is still compatible with GCCXML and no changes are needed for people working with GCCXML.

2. [CastXML] A new function was introduced to help find which XML generator you are using.

If the generator (GCCXML or CastXML) is in your path, it will be detected.

.. code-block:: python

generator_path, generator_name = pygccxml.utils.find_xml_generator()

3. [CastXML] When using the configuration, you will need to tell pygccxml which xml generator you are using.

.. code-block:: python

xml_generator_config = parser.xml_generator_configuration_t(
xml_generator_path=generator_path,
xml_generator=generator_name,
)

``gccxml_configuration_t`` is an alias of ``xml_generator_configuration_t``.

``load_gccxml_configuration`` is an alias of ``load_xml_generator_configuration``.

Both can still be used but will be deprecated.

4. [CastXML] The compiler path can be passed to castxml.

This is done by using the ``compiler_path`` attribute in the configuration.
Note that this may be important because the resulting xml file is slightly different
depending on the compiler.

5. [CastXML] Added support for some fields which have no location.

These fields are: ``gp_offset``, ``fp_offset``, ``overflow_arg_area``, ``reg_save_area``

6. [CastXML] Mangled names are only available for functions and variables with CastXML.

Getting the mangled attribute on a ``declaration`` will fail.

7. [CastXML] Demangled names are not available.

Getting a demangled name will fail.

8. [CastXML] Add new container traits:

``unordered maps``, ``unordered sets``, ``multimaps``, ``multisets``

9. [CastXML] Annotations:

Instead of using the ``__attribute((gccxml("string")))`` c++ syntax (see version 0.9.5), the ``__attribute__ ((annotate ("out")))`` can now be used to annotate code with CastXML.

10. [CastXML] Disabled relinking of:

.. code-block:: python

rebind<std::__tree_node<std::basic_string<char>, void *> >

This made the ``find_container_traits_tester`` unit tests fail with ``CastXML``.
This class defintion is present in the clang AST tree, but I don't know why it is
usefull. Please tell me if you need it so we can re-enable that featur in pygccxml.

11. [Misc] Deprecated the ``compiler`` attribute and replaced it with a global ``utils.xml_generator`` variable.

The ``compiler`` attribute was misleading; it was sometimes confused with the name and version of the xml generator.

This change also fixes some internal problems with the algorithms cache.

12. [Misc] ``declarations.has_trivial_copy`` was defintevely removed.

Please use ``declarations.has_copy_constructor``.

This was deprecated since version 0.9.5.

13. [Misc] Remove ``gccxml`` logger from logger class (was deprecated).

Please use ``cxx_parser`` instead.

14. [Misc] Removed ``gccxml_runtime_error_t`` class. This was only used internally.

Please use a normal ``RuntimeError`` instead.

15. [Misc] Documentation was moved to readthedocs.org

https://readthedocs.org/projects/pygccxml/

16. [Misc] Add quantifiedcode check

https://www.quantifiedcode.com/app/project/117af14ef32a455fb7b3762e21083fb3

17. [Misc] Add option to keep xml files after errors, which is useful for debugging purposes.

18. [Misc] Fix new pep8 warnings, clean up and simplify some code and comments

19. [Misc] The compiler version debugging message is now hidden (closes 12)

20. [Misc] Print less line separations in ``decl_printer``; this makes the output more compact.

21. [Tests] Add new test for the ``contains_parent_dir`` function.

22. [Tests] Add test for non copyable class with const class

23. [Tests] Add test case for non copyable class due to const array

24. [Doc] Small documentation update, moved people list to credits page, added new examples.

25. [Misc] Add Travis unit tests for Python 3.5