Re: Language infrastructure (reloaded)

Lots of people are interested in this. :-) Just a question of time etc.

Gj

On 7-11-2016 13:40, Jean-Marc Borer wrote:
> Ok, so no one seems interested in this topic then...
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Jean-Marc Borer <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello members,
>
>     I know, it was already partly discussed in the thread
>     http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=65697&highlight=language+infrastructure
>     <http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=65697&highlight=language+infrastructure>
>
>     I wanted to start porting my simple language stucture based on the
>     book "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform
>     <http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Client-Programming-Plugging-NetBeans/dp/0132354802>"
>     to a modern approach and try to document it as a or several tutorials.
>
>     Reading through the thread again to refresh my memory, I will
>     probably base my work on Quorum language (Thank yous Stefik) as
>     well as what I can find at
>     https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/Python4NetBeans
>     <https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/Python4NetBeans>.
>
>     I hope those projects use the "most" state of the
>     art implementation for a new language support. @Stefik and
>     Geertjan, do you agree with this statement?
>
>     Now there are still some questions that I would like to be
>     answered to be able to write a "clean" tutorial. Googling around
>     and using information stored in my spongy memory ;), there is/were
>     different language APIs in NB history.
>
>     First there is the old "roots" way described in Rich Client
>     Programming book that I used in the first place. Then there was
>     Schliemann which seems to be discontinued. Then came GSF which is
>     partly documented/used in the NB tutorials. But now it seems it is
>     also becoming deprecated. Now there is CSL.
>
>     Is CSL the new language infrastructure? It seems to have GSF parts
>     in it, since the csl.api readme.txt fle still makes references to GSF.
>
>     Now I am lost. Can someone here out explain me:
>     1) the history of the language infrastructures?
>     2) tell me what is infrastructure to use now (state of the art)
>     and its name (I have a hint but would prefer that someone confirms
>     my idea)?
>
>     Help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Jean-Marc
>
>