[Scilab-Dev] Functions with long names, compatibility between scilab 6 and 5.x

[contact at pierre-vuillemin.fr]

Hello all,

I have developed a set of tools to ease the process of writing 
optimisation problems (it helps mainly to write linear constraint 
matrices but can also directly put simple optimisation problems like 1,2 
or inf norm problem into standard forms) and I have tried to package 
them as a toolbox.

I use the yasp branch of scilab as I tend to use long 
variables/functions names, yet sometimes it is a bit challenging to 
debug my code as scilab simply shuts down.

That is why, I have tried to use the stable version to debug, but I have 
run into some problems during the "building" and execution of my tools :

- the first point is not really an issue, just a question:  with the 
stable version, the routine "genlib" used during the building phase of 
the toolbox produces 2 files : "lib" and "names". This does not seem to 
be the case with the yasp version? Will the "names" file disappear in 
scilab 6?

- more important: the long names of my functions are an issue with the 
stable version. In particular, "genlib" generated binary files with full 
names, and the "names" file contains also the full names of my 
functions. Yet during the execution, scilab calls the functions with 
their truncated names, which obviously does not work.
It there a clever way to handle the problem other than truncating the 
names of the binary files?

Best regards,

Pierre Vuillemin