A parsing proposal

[Roberto Alsina]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Jonas Nordin wrote:

> > I've been wondering if we should find a way to serialize parsing info to a 
> > file.  When I boot up VC++, even if I have a helluva lot of classes, they 
> > seem to show up almost instantly.  If we could do this (and save it in the 
> > project file or something parallel to it), then we could pre-parse all of the 
> > QT and KDElibs files.  Loading them would then be much faster and the bootup 
> > would be greatly accelerated.  
> 
> This is already on it's way. I use a gdbm database to store the classes. I just
> convert them to plain text more or less. Works great. I haven't had the time
> to complete it yet though.

Before the GPL police knocks at your door (as they did with me): the FSF
will complain about you using gdbm in a program that links to Qt.

I'd say use libdb, librdb (it's in kdesupport) or something else :-P

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