Re: [anjuta-devel] Code assistance plugin

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi,


Le 13/04/2012 22:40, Nacho a écrit :
> To be honest I think we should put effords in one program. I would think
> in anjuta as a plugin for gedit to be honest.

I'm agree it would be better to put effort only in one program but I see 
it rather the other way :)


> gedit already has all the  infraestructure for everything

I think one main difference is that Anjuta is using GDL. I don't think 
Gedit can do the same.

Then Anjuta has a plugin architecture since the beginning, a bit like 
eclipse. There is one project using Anjuta for doing a GUI for iPod. It 
looks quite simple to do a text editor.

For me Anjuta is mostly GDL and a plugin library. In practice, libanjuta 
contains much more code but it should be better part of the plugins.


> Maybe right now in gedit we just miss some good autocompletion and a
> project plugin and some interaction between all of them which can be
> done by using the message bus.

I don't really see something missing in Anjuta for using it as an 
editor, except a faster startup time.

Then Anjuta provides some infrastructure to allow plugins to communicate 
and I'm not sure we can do the same with the message bus.


> We should really think about this. I don't think it would be so
> difficult to port all the anjuta's infraestructure and create the
> rocking text editor converted in ide with some plugins.
> What do you guys think?

For the moment, I think that if Gedit uses GDL and improve its plugin 
system it could replace Anjuta. Then being able to share plugins will be 
great. I think it could make sense to still have 2 executables using the 
same platform but having just a different set of default plugins.


Regards,

Sébastien