Hi John,
Thanks for speaking up with a voice of
experience and reason.
Regards,
Leo
From:
cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Camelon
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:14
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General developers list.
Subject: parser contributions
soapbox (was Re: [cdt-dev] FW: [eclipse-dev] C#plugin for Eclipse)
Ryan
Hapgood wrote on 06/13/2006 05:45:57 PM:
> It may also be a good idea to consider
objective C when going through
> any design steps. This would make things much
easier when Bug 68083
> (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=68083)
gets more votes/
> support.
>
> Ryan.
Just wanted
to tell it like it is, from beyond the CDT-grave ... I set
that defect
to "Future" almost 2 years ago BTW. :-)
Speaking
from my experience, it takes a considerable development effort
to
implement, test & support these type of features for a varied cross
product of
target languages, compilers, os's & architectures. Unless
some company
steps up to the table to fund development & testing of
Objective-C
extensions, it will not happen, and I cannot see how
any number
of bugzilla votes will make a real difference.
In CDT 3.1,
Doug has done a comparable amount of work to what the IBM
CDT team did
in CDT 3.0. While the effort and result is quite impressive,
I worry as
to whether or not it is sustainable, particularly as we consider
new
languages (Fortran, C#). I have tried to chip in despite my current
work
commitments, but my contributions have unfortunately been just a
drop in the
bucket.
I do agree
that the long-term goal of the CDT must include support for a
greater
variety of compiled languages; I do not believe that we should fool
ourselves
into believing that its just a matter of finding the right
architecture
and that these parsers, doms & indexers will just build,
test and
tune themselves. I would consider this effort to be that of a
marathon,
not a sprint, and I hope that those who keep bringing the topic
up are
interested in going the full distance, because that is just how long
it may take
to get there.
Thanks
JohnC
