RE: [cdt-dev] Feb. Monthly Call

[Doug Schaefer <DSchaefer@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Craig Rasmussen
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:30 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Feb. Monthly Call
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
> 
> > Just as a quick summary of what I've done:
> >
> > ILanguage defines the core capabilities of a language. When you add
> > a new
> > language, you create an extension of the 'language' extension
> > point. You
> > define an implementation of ILanguage for your language and you
> > list the
> > content types that your language applies to.
> >
> > ITranslationUnit.getLanguage() returns the appropriate ILanguage
> > instance
> > given the content type of the translation unit.
> >
> > ILanguage is adaptable. The intent is to be able to adapt this
> > object to
> > other interfaces for things like UI. I use this facility to get at the
> > language specific object for the PDOM. And so far that is all I
> > have of this
> > framework.
> >
> > This code is all in HEAD.
> 
> Yes, thanks, I saw this.  I was wondering if you had made changes to
> get a
> language specific editor to work.  I thought you had worked in this
> area as
> well.  I'm specifically asking because there were private methods we had
> to make public to get it to work.  These are the patches I started to
> work
> on, but wasn't sure if you had already made them.

[Doug] I was thinking about it but I found too many other things that needed
to get done and it dropped off. I'd be happy to accept patches that make
things work for you though.

Cheers,
D