Re: [anjuta-devel] Code assistance plugin

[Moritz Lüdecke <ritze skweez net>]

Hi,

> > We may instead create a new plugin, a "generic completion-engine", 
> > which
> > could receive requests for C/C++/Python/Vala/etc.
> > An adapter or a strategy pattern can detect which language you want 
> > the
> > completion for, and do it.
> > The exchange resulting objects can be defined as a CompletionSymbol 
> > with
> > common-language fields (icon, kind, file, comments (to be displayed 
> > by a
> > completion-widget on GUI-end).
>
> I'm not sure this is really needed now: it could be useful when some
> dependencies are missing, but not much.

I agree.

As I see it the language-support-cpp-java plugin will only be loaded, 
if there is no clang plugin available or the clang plugin couldn't be 
loaded, because libclang is not installed. Than we have the old 
behaviour to handle c documents. If the clang plugin could be loaded, it 
use symbol-db without ctags. So we should have a way to skip ctags.

In the end we replace language-support-cpp-java plugin with the new 
clang plugin, because the clang plugin will be include the whole 
functionality of language-support-cpp-java.

So as Abderrahim mention already I don't see a reason why we need a 
completion engine adapter.

Regards,
Moritz