Re: [photran-dev] Photran for Netbeans IDE?

[Ralph Johnson <johnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know much about Netbeans but I can tell you about Photran,

In theory, most of Photran is fairly independent from Eclipse, but
there will be lots of accidental connections.  Jeff generates the
parser and all the AST classes using a tool that he developed.  If
either of them turn out to have some Eclipse connections, you can fix
the tool and regenerate.   Jeff would be interested in seeing this
happen.

The refactorings are all written by hand.  They fit into the Eclipse
refactoring framework, but mostly they depend on the Photran ASTs, so
it shouldn't be too hard to make them work in Netbeans.

Then there are things like the interface to compilers (error parsers),
to debuggers, and tool tips.  These are all intimately connected to
Eclipse, and you will either have to do without or write them
yourself.  It sounds to me like a lot of work, but I really don't
know.

Photran uses a lot of the GUI of CDT.   Does Netbeans have something like CDT?

-Ralph Johnson

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Minjae Kim <minjae.d.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> Without starting an IDE war :), I feel that Photran is a great project that
> Netbeans community can benefit from as well.  I am happy to do the porting
> work of making Photran work for Netbeans although it would be great if other
> people are interested as well (both from Netbeans and Photran sides).
> I am not too familiar with internal working of photran, unfortunately, so I
> was wondering if I could ask the community if there is any obvious
> technological difficulties with doing the proposed work.
> Thanks,
> Minjae
>
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