[GSOC] ANTLR and Java based D parser for IDE usage

[Luca Boasso]

Hi,

thank you for your reply and your interest in being a mentor.
I was reading the GSoC Student Guide to understand how to structure my proposal.
By tomorrow evening (San Francisco Time) I'll post a draft of my proposal.
I need some time to explore the existing D IDEs and to illustrate how
this GSoC idea
can be useful for the community.
I would like to present in the proposal a timeline of the objectives
of this project in order
to make the best use of these three months of work.

I'm familiar with Eclipse and I have played a bit with your DDT plugin.
Given the overall quality of Eclipse I have found that it is more reasonable to
go with a plugin approach to build an IDE, rather than to build one
from scratch.
I still have to investigate the other IDEs available for D but since ANTLR
produces a high quality Java parser I assume that DDT would be the IDE
that will
benefit the most from this GSoc idea.

Thank you

Luca Boasso


On 3/26/11, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
> On 25/03/2011 18:24, Luca Boasso wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> since  my previous thread title "GSOC 2011" was not so specific I created
>> a
>> new one. Please refer to the previous posts.
>>
>> I would like to know if this ANTLR idea could be useful or not for the
>> D community and if eventually somebody is interested to be my mentor.
>>
>> Please feel free to discuss about this topic.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Luca Boasso
>
> Hi Luca. Yes, I am interested in being a mentor for proposals such as
> these: anything related to Eclipse-based D IDE stuff (and accordingly I
> have contacted Andrei and Walter to apply).
>
> But to make a successful proposal it helps (perhaps even is essential)
> to be familiar and well aware of how the GSoC project would be used and
> how it would be useful in conjunction with existing tools. And again it
> help that some of these things (at least the basic stuff) are figured
> out and explored out of the initiative of the student himself.
>
> So, first of all, which D IDEs have you tried so far?
>
>
> --
> Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
>