Re: [anjuta-devel] Code assistance plugin

[Moritz Lüdecke <ritze skweez net>]

Hello everybody,

I read the previous mails again and made a little summary:
* It seems to make more sens to write a new clang plugin for anjuta, 
oriented on gedit plugin. After this work we can maybe merge the two 
plugins.
* libclang should be optional for anjuta. If not available: use ctags
* We have to split symbol-db (At the end of this mail I made a little 
sketch to this point):
> * All language support plugin calls the symbol-db plugin.
> * The symbol-db plugin contains only the database management and some 
> interface for listing and searching a symbol. It uses some various 
> parser plugins for each language
> * For C, we can have a parser plugin using ctags or a parser plugin 
> using clang.
> But perhaps the database is really not needed for clang, so in this 
> case the symbol-db plugin could keep only the GUI and the database 
> management is pushed in the parser plugin using ctags. I don't know.
  * As I mentioned we can symbol-db handle like a adapter pattern, 
which loads the needed plugins and rules for the accordingly language.
* The language-support plugins push the symbols to the symbol-db. If no 
language plugin is available, than symbol-db will use ctags.
* language-support-cpp-java:
> splitting it into 2 plugins (one for language independent stuff like 
> indentation, and one for the C/C++ specific stuff that would eventually 
> use clang)
* And finally, we should discuss which features of clang we really 
need:
> * Auto completion.
> * Background compiling and reporting errors while editing the file.
> * List symbols
> * Searching symbols
> * Renaming symbols
> * Parameter reordering.
> * Display call graph
> * Static analysis

By the way I've created a wiki page: 
https://live.gnome.org/MoritzLuedecke_Anjuta_Clang

Regards,
Moritz

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The language-support plugins push the symbols to the symbol-db. If no 
language-plugin is available, than symbol-db will use ctags.
  ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
+-------------------------+
|        symbol-db        |
+-------------------------+
   |   |    |      |    |
 ctags |    |      |  +-------------------+
       |    |      |  | something special |
       |    |      |  +-------------------+
       |    |      |      |      |
     clang java libvala python  etc
       |    |
+---------------------------+
| language-support-cpp-java |
+---------------------------+
  ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
splitting it into 2 plugins (one for language independent stuff like 
indentation, and one for the C/C++ specific stuff that would eventually 
use clang)