Re: [anjuta-devel] Code assistance plugin

[Moritz Lüdecke <ritze skweez net>]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:35:04 +0100, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> > * 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.
>
> As Johannes pointed out, it will be difficult to merge two codebases. 
> If
> you think we should have a common part between the two plugins, you
> should be working on that first.
>
> As for having a common part with the gedit plugin: The main gedit 
> plugin
> (gcp) is just a framework for an IDE, and we have some of its 
> features
> in anjuta already. What's really missing is a common framework for
> language specific plugins (backends) and I'm not sure this is really 
> a
> good idea.
>
> So, what could be shared with the gedit plugin? I'm afraid not much. 
> I
> think you can share more with the current Vala plugin (and improve it 
> in
> the process) than with gedit plugin. (however the C backend could be
> useful to see how to use libclang). The question that remains is 
> whether
> the plugin will be written in C or Vala.
Of course, a common part would be nice. Also it would be nice to write 
the plugin in C.

In the coming days I'm going to make some thought about this...

Regards
Moritz