ede-compdb status

Hi David,

Thanks for reaching out - a few months ago I moved to a new state and new job and completely missed the fact that my domain email stopped working. Fixed now.

In fact I didn’t realise anyone else was using ede-compdb, even though i think it has general utility, particularly for C and C++ programmers. Anyway I’m still actively maintaining it, having made a few tweaks on it as a result of my new job, which had a new build system etc. Anyway, glad there is still some interest.
> Were there some open issues with the code? I think all that was still
> needed was to include the documentation from your Readme.org into our
> Texinfo manuals. However, if you don't feel comfortable around Texinfo,
> we can convert it, though.

Off the top of my head I think the outstanding work is:
- Integrating the main compdb code - most of this work is independent of the rest of EDE, but there is a bit of overlap with compiler flag detection.
- Unit tests. These may be problematic; I’ve been using some third party libraries imported through cask. I don’t know if this is feasible within cedet proper.
- Converting documentation into Texinfo (as you say)
- Check for updates required as a result of changes to EDE - particularly the recent Locate Dominating File merge. Actually this is something I need to do regardless.
> Lately, I also had an idea: wouldn't it be cool if the compilation
> database could be generated from a compilation buffer? I mean, I use gcc
> and I could use this 'bear' utility to generate the db, but I run 'make'
> inside Emacs anyway, so all the data that is needed is right there in
> the output. Eclipse has the same feature for 'make'-based projects: it
> scans the output for preprocessor symbols, includes, etc. It's very
> useful.
Yeah that sounds possible, certainly. Presumably it would persist this information somehow? Perhaps write out a compilation database file? It’s an interesting idea.

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