Re: Project future.

Mauro C. wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> During try to fix #737 #738 #631 #616 had a look inside many parts of net.sourceforge.phpeclipse
> 
> notice many things to do:
> 
> 1) Decide how to use subversion, work always on trunk or create branch for major release.
> 2) Create a source copyright template.
> 3) there are alot of nasty code, expecially inside parsers.
> 4) Decide if we have to move to 100% AST.
> 
> 
> Mauro Casciari
> 

Mr C ;-)

1) I believe the way subversion is being used currently generally 
"correct", with major development changes being carried out on a branch 
and then merged with (or replacing) trunk.  I think in this case there 
might be advantages in not branching however... I think we could get 
away with tagging releases and developing in trunk.  Perhaps someone 
else can suggest what we stand to gain from branching before a release; 
given the scale of the development team and the volume of commits.

2) Good idea.

3) Yes, yes there is.  I have noticed vast volumes of code which has 
been commented out and left for dead; especially functions which are now 
provided by Eclipse itself.  I've also found that a lot of the older 
code lacks meaningful comments or in some case, any comments at all.  I 
think we all stand to benefit from a few more in-line notes.

4) I think the more we can leverage AST, the less heavy listing we'll be 
doing on simple integration and the more time and effort we can focus on 
other more complex features... it's also going to mean more serviceable 
code; IMHO.

My $0.02 :-)

Mike.


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