Re: IDE

[Lluís]

Dmitry Gutov writes:

> On 10/20/2015 03:37 PM, Lluís wrote:
>> And we also have the following project-types:
>> 
>> * project-type-generic:
>> * match: Return t if we can detect a project root using VC
>> * service-types:
>> * service-type-root: service-root-vc

> I see. This looks more like a classical structure, with one "project" objects,
> two attributes in there, and the second one containing a map with list values.

> We could indeed interpret those values as hooks, but that question is less
> important.

> The main benefit of this structure is familiarity to anyone who's done a 
> little
> OOP.

> What I was imagining, since we're talking about services:

> project-types:
>   - project-type-generic:
>     * match
>     * root
>   - project-type-generic-c:
>     * match
>     * root

> search-paths-types:
>   - search-paths-linux (project)
>     * search-paths
>     * resolve-include-path <-- maybe
>   - search-paths-c++ (project)
>     * likewise
>     * likewise

> symbols-list-types:
>   - symbols-list-cscope (project, search-paths)
>   - symbols-list-wisent (project, search-paths)

> The upside is that I can write a new package called magic-8-ball, which would
> add an element at the beginning of symbols-list-types, and that element will
> have a chance to be used in every kind of project. Now just the projects that
> were explicitly written with magic-8-ball in mind. That adds flexibility.

> The downside is that indirection adds complexity as well, and could turn out 
> to
> be mostly unused.

Aha, I see we were imagining different ways of structuring the concepts. What I
don't understand is what you mean with the parenthesis you add to some of the
elements of your "service-type hooks". Are these dependencies between services?

Now, how do you auto-detect what services to use on your currently open project?
I.e., how do you auto-detect what service implementations must be used?

Maybe I wasn't explicit enough in my case, but project-types are the only ones
that provide project detection, and therefore dictate the service
implementations to use on your project.


Cheers,
  Lluis

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