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Hello,<br>
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I am new to Scilab but have a lot of experience with Matlab / Octave
and a number of other languages. I have been gradually adding new
languages ( using Swig ) to support the C based APIs that configure
our company's data acquisition products and these have been
successful for a large number of languages : perl, php, octave,
matlab, java..etc. Ideally, I would really like to add Scilab
support and my company's hardware to the list of devices that
support Scilab I recently ran into a problem while trying to port
this to Scilab and that is caused by the this 24 character
limitation that Scilab imposes for variable and function names.<br>
<br>
I tried doing some background reading about this topic and I was
left with just too many things to explore so I figured I would just
ask a quick question on this message board to see what the status is
on this limitation.<br>
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My questions are:<br>
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1. Is it true that this is something that is going to be fixed ? <br>
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2. Is it going to be fixed before a Scilab 6 has been released ? <br>
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3. Is there any guess as to when this might occur either in Scilab 5
or 6 ? <br>
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I'm debating whether to just wait this one out, but then on the side
I am considering using more of a Comedi based approach to solving
this problem. At this moment there is no way to get around the fact
that some of our API functions and variables are greater than 24
characters in length so recoding our API is not an option. In such
a case we just wouldn't support Scilab.<br>
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Thanks for any information you might have,<br>
<br>
-Jimi<br>
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