Re: Language infrastructure (reloaded)

Thank you Gj, I was thinking my post ended up in /dev/null ;)

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:49 PM, geertjan wielenga <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> More: http://wiki.netbeans.org/GsfToParsingAndIndexingApiMigration
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> Gj
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> On 7-11-2016 13:48, geertjan wielenga wrote:
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> History of language infrastructure: https://blogs.oracle.com/
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> Gj
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> 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.
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> Gj
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> On 7-11-2016 13:40, Jean-Marc Borer wrote:
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> Ok, so no one seems interested in this topic then...
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Jean-Marc Borer <[email protected]>
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>> Hello members,
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>> I know, it was already partly discussed in the thread
>> http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=65697&high
>> light=language+infrastructure
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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)?
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>> Help would be greatly appreciated.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Jean-Marc
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