[Cocci] Semantic patches for more file formats?

[Cocci] Semantic patches for more file formats?

[SF Markus Elfring]

Hello,

I hope that more files which can also contain data formats that are
different from source code for the C programming language will be
supported by a future semantic patch language implementation.
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/e2b56772bae0860cd8cf3aa7c4a06d5a9154128f/changes.txt#L3

Do you know any approaches for such a software evolution?

Regards,
Markus

[Cocci] Semantic patches for more file formats?

[Julia Lawall]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope that more files which can also contain data formats that are
> different from source code for the C programming language will be
> supported by a future semantic patch language implementation.
> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/e2b56772bae0860cd8cf3aa7c4a06d5a9154128f/changes.txt#L3
>
> Do you know any approaches for such a software evolution?

It would require rewriting almost all of the code.  Unless someone wants
to pay for it, and someone is available who is interested in and competant
to do the work, it will never happen from our side.  There are enough
interesting things to do on C code so we have no personal motivation for
investing in it.

julia