Re: Language infrastructure (reloaded)
geertjan wielenga <[email protected]>
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History of language infrastructure: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/lexer Gj On 7-11-2016 13:43, geertjan wielenga wrote: > > 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 >> >> >