Posted by
Ferdinando M. Ametrano-3 on
Oct 28, 2004; 2:29am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/ObjectHandler-QuantLibAddin-and-QuEPs-tp10650p10654.html
Hi all
Jody Goldberg wrote:
>I'm definitely already on some of the quantlib lists, possibly not
>that one please add me.
I've added you and Eric to quantlib-dev
>Gnumeric already has a significant set of financial analytics,
>and I'd like to see that expanded to use quantlib.
this is great news.
>IDL is a non-starter. It is nowhere near reach enough to supply the
>amount of documentation and detail to generate the code I'd like to
>see. A config_file and some sort of script, possibly in python
>seems like a reasonable approach. I've seen it used successfully in
>things like pygtk and gtk#.
I definitively trust you on such an issue.
> By defining the api using a format we
>control it's possible to get all the relevent information.
>Something as simple as an xml based format would be fine. The goal
>is to provide things like
> - name
> - short func description
> - per argument name, description, type
> - Return type
> - long func description (algorithm, model, possible a url to
> more docs)
> - implementation status
> - testing status
> - version info (eg first created in QL v?)
> - Related functions
> - Possibly a ChangeLog ?
> - Translations ?
> - Keywords/Categories to classify function
> - Samples/Examples
> - Related functions
I agree with everything but translations. Not that we have to forbid them,
but imho the financial community doesn't really need them.
Eric wrote:
>I'll send more specific comments on Monday,
>as well as a split QuEP11(/12?) and a draft
>design for the automatic generation of code
I look forward to it.
ciao -- Nando