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Hello,<br>
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This limitation will not be fixed in the 5.x family but is already
fixed in the YaSp (future Scilab 6) branch:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scilab.org/en/development/nightly_builds/yasp">http://www.scilab.org/en/development/nightly_builds/yasp</a><br>
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Regards.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/24/2015 11:33 PM, Jimi Damon
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Hello,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
My questions are:<br>
<br>
1. Is it true that this is something that is going to be fixed ? <br>
<br>
2. Is it going to be fixed before a Scilab 6 has been released ? <br>
<br>
3. Is there any guess as to when this might occur either in Scilab
5 or 6 ? <br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Thanks for any information you might have,<br>
<br>
-Jimi<br>
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