Bug#533858: RFP: cint -- C/C++ interpreter

[David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : cint
  Version         : 7.3.00
  Upstream Author : Masaharu Goto <gotom@hanno.jp>,  Philippe Canal Paul Russo, 
			Leandro Franco, Diego Marcos, and Axel Naumann.
* URL             : http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
* License         : MIT/X
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : C/C++ interpreter


>From the web site:
  
CINT covers most of ANSI C and ISO C++. A CINT script can call
compiled classes/functions and compiled code can make callbacks to
CINT interpreted functions. Utilities like makecint and rootcint
automate the process of embedding compiled C/C++ library code as
shared objects (as Dynamic Link Library, DLL, or shared library,
.so). Source files and shared objects can be dynamically
loaded/unloaded without stopping the CINT process. CINT offers a gdb
like debugging environment for interpreted programs.

Comments:

there is currently a version of CINT available as part of the
root-system-bin binaries, but

1) It is not clear how well maintained that is.

2) A quick and dirty package of standalone CINT I made is 35M
   installed, versus 100M+ for root-system-bin.

If somebody is going to maintain root-system, it would make sense to
split out the CINT package if possible.

I would be willing to help maintain this package.