RE: [photran] When is refactoring inclusion planned?

["Brian Foote" <foote@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I'll be at Supercomputing starting Mon. afternoon. Let's use the
Fortran Co. booth as a Photran hub once the exhibits are open. We'll be
looking forward to meeting a few of you email-only faces in person...

--BF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig E. Rasmussen [mailto:rasmussn@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, 07 November, 2005 18:08
> To: overbey2@xxxxxxxx; Photran Information
> Cc: foote@xxxxxxxxxxx; crasmussen@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [photran] When is refactoring inclusion planned?
> 
> > I finished the refactoring and formatting engine several months ago;
> > Spiros and I are refining parts of that and working on actual
> > refactorings.  Our undergrads are tying a simple Rename Local Variable
> > refactoring into the user interface, which will be available in beta 2
> > or beta 3.  Other refactorings will appear after we've convinced
> > ourselves that they're robust enough to unleash on you.  :-)
> >
> 
> This is really good news.  I talked with several customers at LANL and
> they were excited about the possibilities, and unfortunately, wanted
> to start using refactoring immediately.
> 
> >
> > 2. It does not have all of the nice formatting options the JDT has, and
> > it probably never will.  Instead, it will more or less preserve your
> > current code appearance.
> >
> 
> I assume that this means it will have basic unparsing capabilities.  How
> about
> simple things like consistently adding indentation to move from F77 to
> F90?  This is one of the requests.
> 
> > 3. The refactoring component is a research tool.  It was designed to be
> > generic, modular, and (relatively) easy to understand, modify, and
> > maintain.  Efficiency is not a major concern, at least right now.  It is
> > a memory and a processor hog, and it can be slow.  This is not because
> > we are bad programmers; rather, Spiros and I total just one full-time
> > equivalent
> 
> Because of the interest from important teams at LANL, I will be able to
> spend
> significant amount of my time to help.  If money were available this
> fiscal year,
> are there more students that could help at Illinois?
> 
> Jeff, did you resend the plugin you made without ZIP in the name.  I'd
> like to
> take a look at it and add some interface extraction features I need.
> 
> Brian I'm assuming you are going to SuperComputing but not Jeff.  It would
> be nice if we could come up with a tentative schedule for refactoring and
> who was going to do what and when.  I would like to start working on some
> of the refactorings of interest to our users in December.
> 
> Cheers,
> Craig