| RE: [Dltk-dev] TCL - Extracting a call graph |
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Hello Phil, First of all thank you very much for kind words about DLTK, and
for raising very interesting issue about developing tools on top of the DLTK. In fact there are a lot of facilities inside DLTK, which are
vital to build different tools such as code analysis, etc. In middle term
(after DLTK 1.0) we’re dreaming to give developers possibility to access
these DLTK (and Eclipse Platform) facilities and services using scripts in
languages supported by DLTK (and having corresponding JVM-based interpreter
such as jacl for TCL or JRuby for Ruby). This would allow end-users (developers)
to extend DLTK and implement tools of their choice much easily. But such tools
still will be hosted by Eclipse… If you’re looking for a solution outside the Eclipse my
thoughts are following: Technically it would not be easy (and I think unreasonable) to
decouple DLTK from Eclipse Platform and move some code out to use without Eclipse.
However it’s relatively easy to assemble headless DLTK distribution on
top of OSGi and Eclipse, which could be used in different scenarios like tool
with command-line interface or some kind of stateful server having access to
your codebase and performing your tasks on the code. Both approaches are not mutually exclusive (although headless
DLTK shall be “extended” with your code). At the moment Java is
definitely possible to add new functionality on top of DLTK, in future I hope
there will be a possibility to extend DLTK with TCL and other languages. As for your idea to build a call graphs for tcl files, if
headless eclipse if OK for you, we’d be happy to help to assemble headless
DLTK and I’ll ask TCL folks to show you entry points and give some ideas
how such a graph builder could be implemented. Kind Regards, Andrey Platov From: dltk-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:dltk-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phillip Martin Howdy
guys, First
off - very impressive work so far with teh DLTK plugin. From an end-users
perspective, it is a very valuable tool, but form a developers point of view,
it must have been some fascinating work creating this thing. Well done! I've
been happily playing with the TCL aspect of it, and it has got some really
valuable tools for us, and I was wondering : how accessible are these from
outside the UI of eclipse? The
main thing I'm interested in at the moment is being able to do a bit of static
analysis and create a call graph for a body of tcl code. Since it has a call
graph facility built in to the user interface, I was just wondering how easy
would this be to parse all the tcl files and look for call graphs on all the
procs? Any
tips or ideas on where to look would be great. I had a poke around the DLTK
source code, and I thought I had path forward, but I ran out of
time. -
Phil Martin |