Overview of ECLiPSe components and assignment of maintainers

Author: Joachim Schimpf
Date: 2002-02-07

Purpose

This document gives an overview of all components of the ECLiPSe system and assigns two or more maintainers to each component. The intentions are Abbreviations used:

ECLiPSe Kernel Components

 
Component Description Files in Documentation Test Owner We support Maint 1 Maint 2
Arithmetic All ground arithmetic, including GNU multi precision library, used for Eclipse bignums and rationals Gmp/*
Kernel/src/{emu,bip_arith,bigrat,intervals}.c		 Internals Manual ICP
LGPL		 yes js wh
Pds,Alog,Usc Parallel system support Pds/
Alog/
Usc/		 Reports by Kees Schuerman ICP no - -
Shm Memory management Shm/ DOC file ICP yes js amc
WinMSC Windows Visual C build structure for Eclipse WinMSC/ source ICP yes js wh
INSTALL Global install and build structure, makefiles */INSTALL,BUILD,Makefile Memo ICP yes wh ajs
Control All solutions, suspensions, priorities, events etc Kernel/src/emu*, bip_control
Kernel/lib/setof		 Internals Manual ICP yes js ks
Compiler (old) Micha Meier's compiler, implemented in C sepia/src/head,body,pass*,procedure,section source
Micha's papers		 ICP yes - -
Compiler (new) New compiler, implemented in Eclipse Compiler/* Implementation Report ICP yes js ks
Heap Storage Everything related to nonlogical storage Kernel/src/bip_record, property, proc_desc, bip_array, dynamic Internals Manual ICP yes js ks
Term Manip All non-numeric operations (strings etc) Kernel/src/bip_strings,tconv,comp Internals Manual ICP yes js ks
Low level I/O Buffers, files, sockets, streams Kernel/src/io, bip_io Internals Manual ICP yes js ajs
Read/Write lexer, parser, writer Kernel/src/lex, read, write, operator Internals Manual ICP yes js ks
Modules dictionary, procedure and property descriptors Kernel/src/proc_desc,bip_module,dict Internals Manual ICP yes js ks
Engine Emulator, garbage collector, stack management Kernel/src/emu*, gc*, mem* Internals Manual ICP yes js ks
amc
OS interface Operating system interface predicates Kernel/src/os_support, bip_misc source ICP yes js ks
Compiler support Assembler, compiled file storage Kernel/lib/fcompile,asm source,eci ICP yes ks js
Testing Test harness and utilities Tests/aitch, test_eclipse
Kernel/lib/t_all,test_util,timelog		 source ICP yes wh js

ECLiPSe Libraries

 
Component Description Files in Documentation Test Owner We support Maint 1 Maint 2
Clpqr Simplex solver in Prolog Clpqr/ Paper by Holzbaur 3rd party no - -
Contrib DEC10 Prolog libraries Contrib/ source, .hlp files public domain no - -
Oci Oracle interface Oci/ libman/oci.tex PTL no sn -
CHR Constraint handling rules ecrc_solvers/chr Library Manual ICP no - -
ECH New constraint handling rules icparc_solvers/ech Library Manual ICP yes ks ajs
Conjunto Set solver ecrc_solvers/ Library Manual ICP no - -
Grace Visualiser ecrc_solvers/grace/ no - -
Propia Generalised propagation ecrc_solvers/ Library Manual ICP yes mgw wh
Global FD/IC Global fd constraints icparc_solvers/{edge_finder, cumulative, fd_global} Library Manual ICP yes js ajs
Eplex Cplex/Xpress interface icparc_solvers/eplex* Library Manual ICP yes ks js
Probing Probing for scheduling icparc_solvers/probe* Library Manual ICP yes mgw wh
Repair Repair/tentative value library icparc_solvers/repair* Library Manual ICP yes js mgw
sn/hhe
Ria Real interval constraints icparc_solvers/ria* Library Manual ICP yes js wh
IC Interval constraints icparc_solvers/ic* Library Manual ICP yes wh ajs
Search samples Code templates and examples icparc_solvers/cbs,wcs,knapsack,repair_fd Tutorial ICP no mgw ks
Graph alg Graph representation and algorithms library icparc_solvers/graph_algorithms eci ICP yes js ajs
daVinci DaVinci interface pt_libraries eci PTL yes js hs
ks
Search tools Search library for fd,
branch-and-bound		 pt_libraries
icparc_solvers/branch_and_bound		 eci PTL yes js hs
wh
Project Tools pt_libraries/pretty_printer,... eci PTL yes js hs
ks
Utilities Various small libraries Kernel/lib/calendar, lists, shadow_cons, var_names source ICP yes js ks
mgw
FD Finite domain solver Kernel/lib/fd source ICP yes wh js
Collections Abstract data types for collections Kernel/lib/hash
mercury/m_map, m_tree234		 source ICP
LGPL		 yes wh amc
Compatibility Libraries Compatility packages for other, mainly Prolog systems Kernel/lib/bsi,cprolog,quintus,sicstus,iso source,eci ICP yes js ks
FD Sets Finite integer set solver icparc_solvers/fd_sets source,eci ICP yes js wh

ECLiPSe Interfacing

 
Component Description Files in Documentation Test Owner We support Maint 1 Maint 2
JavaInterface Java embedding and remote interface JavaInterface/* Embedding Manual, javadoc PTL yes josh ajs
VBInterface Visual Basic interface VBInterface/ Embedding Manual ICP no sn -
Tcl Interface Tcl/Tk embedding interface lib_tcl/eclipse.tcl Embedding Manual ICP yes ks js
RemoteInterface Generic remote interface Kernel/lib/ Embedding Manual ICP yes ks josh
C/C++ Interface Low level embedding and external predicate interface Kernel/src/embed,eclipse_cc,external,embed Embedding Manual ICP yes ajs sn

ECLiPSe Development Tools

 
Component Description Files in Documentation Test Owner We support Maint 1 Maint 2
Opium Debugging system Opium/ Papers, reports, manual by Mireille Ducasse public domain no - -
Toplevel Interactive toplevel Kernel/lib/toplevel source ICP yes js ks
Debugger and Profiler The box model tracer with its user interfaces Kernel/lib/tracer*, profile,
lib_tcl/eclipse_tools		 source ICP yes js ks
Documenter Tools to extract interfaces and generate documentation Kernel/lib/document source ICP yes js ks
TkEclipse The development GUI inTCL/Tkl lib_tcl/* source script ICP yes ks js
Visualisation Tools Development tools for visualising constraint programming and search Visualisation/* tbd PTL yes ajs amc