Support for SAS - happy to open PR with some guidance about m2cgen HOT 4 CLOSED

Hey @lucharo ! Thanks for your interest in m2cgen!

I think you can start from looking at PRs that added support for other programming languages, e.g. Elixir, Rust, Dart.

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Hello @StrikerRUS! I have been working on this for the last week and I am close to submit a PR :) (I actually will be interacting from a different GH account and will be submitting a PR from my company's GitHub, need to wait on some legal stuff)

The code that has been developed is of such quality! It's all so well thought out, looking forward to submit the PR

I have one question though. Most if not all the already supported languages are open source and hence downloadable the github action workers. Your testing pipeline relies on the code being run locally (in the GH Action workers) with whatever language is being tested then parsing the result in python and comparing it to the python output. I was wondering how to go about this with a language like SAS which is not open source and also often not installed as a client tool but rather installed in some remote server?

One option I've thought is to expand tests/utils.py to have a remote_execute_command which can basically submit jobs over an ssh connection and have a some sort of configuration file for the specifics of the SAS server running the tests. Let me know what you think

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I am close to submit a PR

Sounds good!

I was wondering how to go about this with a language like SAS which is not open source

Yeah, that's a big question!

to have a remote_execute_command which can basically submit jobs over an ssh connection

I don't think that's an option for this project. Such method will require maintenance burden to support that server for which we don't have resources.

Maybe there is any basic/community/trial version of SAS we can use? Or we can send request to SAS for very limited personal license that we'll be using here (from the first glance it seems SAS respects open source in some way).
Here is what I've found so far: https://www.listendata.com/2021/01/run-sas-in-python-without-installation.html.

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Added into feature-request hub #490.

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