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Re: [cdt-dev] Patch to create ICoreModel interface
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After fielding questions from a couple of people about Ada support in the
CDT. I've started to give this a bit more thought.
I guess the ideal situation is to minimize the amount of code necessary
when adding support for a new language to the CDT. I've seen this strategy
used by a number of companies now in a number of places (unfortunately
none of them on eclipse.org). I would think that having a whole new UI
(perspective, editor, etc) for each language is too heavy weight,
especially when you consider mixed language projects.
My current thought is to build on the mechanisms we have in place for file
types and add a language description interface that would be implemented
for a language (and probably a language UI interface for customizing
certain UI elements like icons). We already have a number of places where
we check whether we are C or C++ to customize behavior in the CDT. The
idea would be to make it extensible so that we can look up in a generic
way to do the same tricks.
This may be a pipe dream but I've always been interested in Ada and have
started experimenting with these ideas, Maybe this will also help
kickstart those who are interested in Ada (which includes AdaCore - the
GNAT people https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=91800) to help
contribute to this. I will also need help understanding what the Fortran
folk would need, including the Photran guys.
Doug Schaefer
Ottawa Lab, IBM Rational Software Division
Craig Rasmussen <crasmussen@xxxxxxxx>
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04/15/2005 11:22 AM
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Nathan C ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor Prewitt
<Nathan.C.Prewitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Watson <gwatson@xxxxxxxx>,
Alain Magloire <alain@xxxxxxx>
Subject
Re: [cdt-dev] Patch to create ICoreModel interface
On Apr 12, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Alain Magloire wrote:
> I am assuming that FDT, will have a perspective, a fortran editor
> and some other extra views.
Yes.
> For post cdt-3.0, maybe the goal should be to find the common core
> denominators
> and refactor them out. For the UI, it will be more tricky and we
> should be
> ready to accept a lot clone/duplication for the first iterations.
>
I'm experimenting with this now. When I have something I think is
useful, I'll get
back to everyone. I think I've learned enough to make progress.
Cheers,
Craig
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