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Re: [cdt-dev] Re: Cross-language navigation (Nicolas Musset)
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I think a multi-language framework would be a great idea.
Unfortunately, there really isn't a project out there that has
multi-language IDE support as it's mandate. The Platform doesn't have
a component set up to be that, aside from debug. And it would be a lot
of work to get a new component going, something I don't think any of
us have the time to take that on.
The CDT is natural, at least for the Java interactions. JNI requires a
language that can produce C linkage, or you're writing your interface
in C. C and C-like languages like this are things the CDT would like
to support.
Following up on this proposal,
CDT looks natural for Ada interactions as well, and I guess COBOL and
Fortran people feel the same. General multiple-language IDE suport
sounds like the kind of project that everybody wants but never gets
done. On the other hand, agreeing on a minimal set of language-agnostic
interfaces would help a lot. We'd be happy to provide a small set of
classes as an initial idea for such an API - but perhaps there are
already parts of the CDT code that look like it?
