RE: [photran-dev] Development directions and thoughts from Superc omputi

[Doug Schaefer <DSchaefer@xxxxxxx>]

Very cool. Thanks, Jeff.

There are a lot of interesting things we can do if we bring the two AST/DOM
things together. With the help of Beth and other Eclipsers that cross the
CDT/PTP/Photran boundaries, we can make the changes necessary to help make
this happen.

BTW, this is something I'll also be pursuing with the Hibachi project
working on Ada tooling. They are also interested in merging technologies.
And they use my favorite parser generator, ANTLR ;)

Cheers,
Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: photran-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:photran-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Overbey
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 11:29 AM
> To: Photran Developer Info
> Subject: [photran-dev] Development directions and thoughts from
> Supercomputing
> 
> Here are some of my thoughts and post-Supercomputing.  I'd really like
> to hear what others think...
> 
> 1. I continue to be excited about some of the features our undergrads at
> UIUC are working on (content assist, find all references, error
> corrections, etc.).  The Fortran BOF agreed unanimously that we would
> never defeat emacs, but for the programmers that might be converted to
> Eclipsism, I believe these are the types of features that will do it.
> 
> 2. Markus's or Mike's C preprocessor from CDT should be integrated into
> Photran soon, and we should worry later about supporting multiple
> configurations in the AST/VPG.  Preprocessor support is critical for
> large projects and should be integrated before we release (and hype)
> search features.
> 
> 3. Several people are looking forward to OFP integration and a
> solidified AST.  Wyatt would like full location information added to our
> CModel elements rather than just the identifier location.  Beth would
> like a CDT IScope/IBinding interface on the AST, and being able to reuse
> her CDT visitor would be even better.  These are both easy enough to
> add.  I can take care of this and would like to target it for Summer 08.
> 
> 4. There is lots of interest in C/C++/Fortran cross-language search.  I
> hope one of our new contributors can spend some time on this.  The
> program database we are using is very refactoring-specific and looks
> nothing like the PDOM, but building a PDOM-based index off of it should
> be fairly straightforward.  In a year or two, it will make more sense
> why I want to keep our existing representation around as well...
> 
> 5. I would like to call our first release Photran 2008 (2009?), if the
> Eclipse priesthood will allow this.  I really wish we were "Photran 2008
> on CDT 2008 on Eclipse 2008," since even I can't remember that I'm
> running "Photran 4.0b3 on CDT 4.0.1 on Eclipse 3.3.1.1 on OS X 10.4."
> 
> Jeff
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