[vos-d] Fun with the generator

[Lalo Martins]

Well.  I spun off the web MVC stuff into a new library (hypervos).  That 
opened a pandora box of generator fun :-)

I'm a bit exhausted, so I'll go over them briefly; if you need more 
detail, ask, and I'll elaborate tomorrow.  Or check out my branch and 
play around yourself.

Also, I'm not saying these need to be fixed urgently; just that we need 
to know about them for the future.

1: mod_vos.xod (and my other projects) extend a lot of classes from the 
new library.  But since the generator doesn't know about those, it 
reports broken links and generally doesn't know what to do.

The answer to this may be in my plugin loader; I might try my hand at 
solving it later this week.

2: The #define guards use only the file name.  If you have headers with 
the same name in different libraries (eg MVC.hh)... you get my point I 
think.  I manually changed them to eg #define _hypervos_MVC_hh_, might 
make the change in the generator later.

3: Much worse happens if you have namespaces with the same name :-) the 
generated code has things like MVC::View all over, which of course 
generate "ambiguous namespace reference" errors galore.

4: This is unrelated to the hypervos move, I noticed it earlier.  If my 
class "Foo" extends "vos::core::Bar", then Foo.hh will have
#include "Bar.hh"
which of course won't work so well... should be <vos/Bar.hh> :-)

5: Just to put in a positive note and because I like the number 5 better 
than 4, I'll say I found great joy in recent s5 work; in particular 
Vobject::clone() saved me hours of toil!

best,
                                               Lalo Martins
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