Eclipse plugin

[Bruno Medeiros]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Ary Manzana wrote:
> 
>> Bruno Medeiros escribió:
>>> Let me know when you get back.
>> I'm back.
>>
>>  > I have a lot of questions, it would be
>>> nice if we could exchange IM contacts (MSN, YM?), for now, I'm usually
>>> at the D IRC channel (bruno_m).
>> Which server? I didn't find it. My MSN is asterite ĉe hotmail punkto com.
>>
>>> For starters: "Ported most of DMD lexer and parser code. " - What do you
>>> mean "most" ? And what task are you planning to do next?
>> In http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/wiki/WikiStart I added a
>> section below, "How to help?". There you'll find the explantation for
>> "most". Actually, the lexer and parser code are ported, but the source
>> ranges for elements are still missing for a lot of elements, as well as
>> the nice AST interfaces.
>>
>>> My original planning was for me to do first an IDE-decoupled
>>> command-line tool that would perform some operations
>>> useful-even-outside-of-an-IDE, like code beautification or refactoring.
>>> This isn't just for project phased planning or code abstraction, I think
>>> it's a worthy goal of itself. Such IDE-decoupled tool could then be used
>>> by developers who use another IDE,editor (or none at all). Perhaps it
>>> could also be useful (by porting or direct use) to other IDEs in the
>>> future. (like Poseidon maybe?)
>> Sounds like an interesting project, but I don't like the idea of a
>> plugin using command lines. But that's just me.
> 
> Well if the actual functionality is implemented in small libs, it could be
> exposed in both ways ... would be smart in any case, no?
> 

Yes, that's I meant. The (Eclipse) plugin uses the lib directly, not 
through the command-line. The command-line is just an alternative front-end.

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D