Re: Scaffold: CurrentDocument namespace patch

[Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen xs4all nl>]

Thanks. I'll commit it today (along with the other patches & glimmer
stuff).

Jeroen

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 20:32, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Forgot to attach the patch.
> 
> --
> J5
> 
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 14:29, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > The sample plugin was crashing so I tracked it down to one of the files
> > looking up CurrentDocument which should be namespaced as
> > DocumentManager::CurrentDocument.
> > 
> > On another similar note I noticed all the the plugins are refrenceing
> > Scaffold objects.  Doesn't this kill the reusablility of these plugins? 
> > For instance all the plugins are children of ScaffoldTool which was once
> > AnjutaTool.  Should this not be moved into Gdl and named GdlTool?  In my
> > mind Scaffold is just a shell which can be renamed to fit a perticular
> > project.  Plugins are then added to provide the functionality.  So say I
> > wanted to make a standalone debugger called GnomeDebugger, I would
> > rename Scaffold to GnomeDebugger, stip out the plugins code because I
> > already compile them with Scaffold, and then provide a default layout
> > that is optimal for a debugger along with some other plugins to enhance
> > the debugger's functionality.  In turn Scaffold now gets an integrated
> > debugger from GnomeDebugger's plugins if the user so chooses to activate
> > them.
> > 
> > The biggest problem in this senario is renaming the shell also renames
> > the default plugins which means there is duplicate code running around
> > the system.  For instance I am running the old Anjuta2 branch in
> > parallel with Scaffold (actualy editing Scaffold with Anjuta2).  They
> > should be able to share the same DocumentManager code but they can't. 
> > Perhaps not all plugins need to change and may work better as integrated
> > components.  The external components such as gnome-build work fine with
> > both Anjuta2 and Scaffold though I think certant plugins like the
> > DocumentManager should be broken out while helper functions like
> > scaffold_insert_text_at_cursor should be moved to Gdl or just reside
> > with the document manager code as a public interface.  What do you
> > think?
> > 
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> > J5 
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