Re: Language infrastructure (reloaded)

More: http://wiki.netbeans.org/GsfToParsingAndIndexingApiMigration

Gj

On 7-11-2016 13:48, geertjan wielenga wrote:
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> History of language infrastructure: 
> https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/lexer
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> Gj
>
> On 7-11-2016 13:43, geertjan wielenga wrote:
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
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