Re: [cdt-dev] Speaking of multilang...

[Douglas Schaefer <dschaefe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/20/2005 11:41:58 AM:

> > 
> > Hey gang,
> > 
> > While investigating how we could best support additional languages in 
the 
> > CDT, I ran across this code in CTextTools:
> > 
> >         /** The C source code scanner */
> >         private CCodeScanner fCodeScanner;
> >         /** The C++ source code scanner */
> >         private CppCodeScanner fCppCodeScanner;
> >         /** The C partitions scanner */
> >         private FastCPartitionScanner fPartitionScanner;
> >         /** The Java multiline comment scanner */
> >         private CCommentScanner fMultilineCommentScanner;
> >         /** The Java singleline comment scanner */
> >         private CCommentScanner fSinglelineCommentScanner;
> >         /** The Java string scanner */
> >         private SingleTokenCScanner fStringScanner;
> > 
> > Apparently we already have some support for Java ;-)
> > 
> 
> 8-)
> Some of the code was based on Eclipse-1.0 JDT,
> so
>    s:Java:C/C++
> 
> The CDT code been slowly forking from the JDT over time.
> But at the beginning, to make the bootstrap, lots of code
> from JDT/PDE/Eclipse were cloned/copy.

Yes, I relayed this to the Photran guys who have cloned the CDT to make 
their Fortran DT, which makes it a clone of a clone. They are tring to 
fight the fork by recloning every release, which is a huge pain.

Cheers,
Doug